jailoress

English

Etymology

jailor +‎ -ess

Noun

jailoress (plural jailoresses)

1. A female jailor.
   • 1845, Katherine Thomson, Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, volume 2, page 274:

     Ву the “clink of a louis d'or,” the prisoner managed to subdue the fidelity of this fair jailoress; she supplied him with pens and paper, and he immediately began a correspondence with his absent friends at the French Court.