Noun

(es)

A female host.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}

A female innkeeper.

Stewardess: a woman steward on an airplane.

A bar hostess or bargirl; a paid female companion offering conversation and in some cases sex.

Noun

(en noun)

A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.

The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.

* 1929 , Baldwyn Dyke Acland, Filibuster , Chapter 2

*:“One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler' and three to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"

A valet, a male personal attendant.