What is "conductress"

Usage examples of "conductress".

As he was half amused and half curious and all in doubt how to get rid of the old lady without offence, she continued to lead us away, and he and Ada continued to follow, our strange conductress informing us all the time, with much smiling condescension, that she lived close by.

As a conductress of Indian schools, and a helper amongst Indian women, your assistance will be to me invaluable.

My conductress raised her lamp aloft, and let the light fall gently on the little white-draped figure.

We naturally drew back and glanced at our conductress, who had been trying to open the house-door with a key she had taken from her pocket, and to whom Richard now said that as we had had the pleasure of seeing where she lived, we would leave her, being pressed for time.

In the parking place beyond the vast torii that guarded the entrance, chars-a-bancs were disgorging hordes of students while the conductresses shouted “Awri, awri, awri” and blew whistles to help the drivers of other chars-a-bancs to back in.

In the parking place beyond the vast torii that guarded the entrance, chars-a-bancs were disgorging hordes of students while the conductresses shouted 'Awri, awri, awri' and blew whistles to help the drivers of other chars-a-bancs to back in.

But that doesn't prevent him from writing to his cousin Tulla, who, when she is not cut off in Danzig-Langfuhr with elements of the Vistula Army Group, goes on working as a streetcar conductress.

I had intended to become a land girl, a postwoman, and a bus conductress by way of rounding off my career--but the Armistice intervened!