Usually means: Female attendant; manages door, building.
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  1. porteress: Merriam-Webster
  2. porteress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. porteress: Collins English Dictionary
  4. porteress: Wordnik
  5. porteress: Wiktionary
  6. porteress: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Porteress, porteress: Dictionary.com
  8. Porteress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. porteress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Porteress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. porteress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. porteress: FreeDictionary.org
  13. porteress: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  Alternative form of portress [(rare, dated) A female porter (person in control of the entrance to a building)]

Similar:
portress, pottress, mentress, reportress, traveleress, traderess, bartenderess, harbourmistress, poetress, proprietess, more...

Opposite:
porter, bellhop, baggage handler

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Similar:
portress, pottress, mentress, reportress, traveleress, traderess, bartenderess, harbourmistress, poetress, proprietess, more...

Opposite:
porter, bellhop, baggage handler



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