Definition of "wardress" [wardress]

• A female warder (noun)

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• "The leg was useless, but by help of the double banisters she hopped up two flights to her cell, an older wardress from the upper corridor lending her assistance."
• "The old wardress – for female persons were also reformed there – lived in our attic."
• "He needed something-a stout healthy woman who had trained as a prison wardress, perhaps-but it had become more and more difficult to find nannies for Ramses."