hostesse

See also: hôtesse

English

Noun

hostesse (plural hostesses)

1. Obsolete spelling of hostess
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 49, column 2:

     Fal. Thou ſay'ſt true Lad: is not my Hoſteſſe of the Tauerne a moſt ſweet Wench? / Prin. As is the hony, my old Lad of the Caſtle: and is not a Buffe Ierkin a moſt ſweet robe of durance?

French

Noun

hostesse f (plural hostesses)

1. Obsolete spelling of hôtesse

See also

• hoste

Middle English

Noun

hostesse (plural hostesses)

1. hostess

See also

• hoste

Middle French

Noun

hostesse f (plural hostesses)

1. hostess

See also

• hoste

Old French

Noun

hostesse f (oblique plural hostesses, nominative singular hostesse, nominative plural hostesses)

1. Alternative form of ostesce