Also 8–9 Jailoress. [f. prec. + -ESS.] A female jailer.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), II. xii. 72. My saucy gaoleress assured me, that all my oppositions would not signify that pinch of snuff.
1796. Plain Sense, III. 67. He would find such a jailoress as he desired.
1863. Sala, Capt. Dangerous, I. x. 285. Knocked about by the Turnkeys, or abused by the Gaoleress.
