What is "wardresses"

Usage examples of "wardresses".

Finally the Wardresses who were there shrugged and said they'd never seen anything like it, but they couldn't help me.

I've also spoken with Rodmistresses who don't hold with the ways of the Forest Orders or the Wardresses of the Precincts, but there was nothing they could do for me either.

There were guards at the door they had just come through and a few women in dresses of the dull brown of the prison warder uniform: wardresses probably hastily pressed into service to tend the injured.

One of the prison wardresses was standing nearby, washing her hands in a metal sink against the wall.