wardress

ward·ress

Chiefly Brit. a prison matron: now rare

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Noun

(plural wardresses)

a female warder

Origin

warder +"Ž -ess

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In her six hands are torches, sometimes a snake, a key (as wardress of the lower world), a whip or a dagger; her favourite animal was the dog, which was sacrificed to her - an indication of her nonHellenic origin, since this animal very rarely fills this part in genuine Greek ritual.

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