wardress

/wawr-dris/US // ˈwɔr drɪs //

女监护人,女医生,女舍监,女护士

Definitions

n.名词 noun

He asked where were the keys, and as I said in the pocket of the wardress, who slept within, he sent me there to get them.
Through more corridors they passed till the wardress stopped just short of an open door and rang a bell.
In the morning he came again, and with him the Governor and the head wardress.
At least I gathered as much from the alarmed expression of the wardress who accompanied him.
A wardress ran up to us, saying: "I shall listen to everything you say."