What is "porteress"

Usage examples of "porteress".

I paid the bill, gave something to the waiter, and took them back to the convent, where the porteress seemed well enough pleased with the new rules when she saw two sequins in her palm.

Or perhaps the porteress had never experienced lust and would not recognize the symptoms.

Of the nuns, only Sister Ruth as porteress, Sister Christina and Sister Anne, who are both in charge of the hospital, and I may have such keys.

However severe Sister Ruth might be with Eleanor, the porteress was showing kindness to the terrified girl.

Eleanor said, rather doubting that the porteress would have done any such thing.

Nor did Brother Simeon help matters any with his remarks to the former porteress about the injustice she had suffered and with his praising of her superior abilities over those of the woman who had supplanted her at Tyndal.

Louison and Antoine walked to the Ursuline Convent, in the high town, and having acquainted the porteress with their errand, found, to their great mortification, they took no ladies in chamber, or high pensioners.

Old Parson knows, the whole village knows, Dig weed knows that I am porteress of the Moonacre Gate, but Sir Benjamin does not know.

Sir Benjamin made her porteress so that she should have a comfortable home.

Sir Benjamin had made her porteress and then she had quarreled with him too.

When Elspeth was installed as porteress I used to visit her at the gate house, and when she died, and my husband died too, I collected all my belongings, including all my pink geraniums, and went secretly to live there, as I told you, like the first Moon Princess.

Upon ringing the bell, Cuthbert told the porteress, as had been arranged, that he had called on a message from Dame Editha, and he was immediately ushered into the parlour of the convent, where, a minute or two later, he was joined by the lady abbess.

At the door in the high white wall of the school-garden, he asked an unveiled crone of a porteress to say merely that two gentlemen had called.

She lowered her voice so that neither William nor the porteress at the nearby gatehouse could overhear.

There was a man but it was too dark for the porteress to make him out.