Meaning of guardienne | Babel Free

Definitions

A woman, girl, or other female force who or which guards; a female guardian.

Examples

“As we had the only available crafts, gallantry would dictate that we should, at least, make formal tender of these; but our wrath was high against the guardienne at the gate permitting so many more to pass where the resources were already fully taxed that, each waiting for the other raft-party to do their duty, and both satisfied that pic-nics could better be held on dry land than aboard wet rafts, no move was made by either of us — and the fishing proceeded!”

“The guardienne and the other steward reported it. If I fire him, two years of training in a hot kitchen goes down the drain as well as a good cook.”

“Some evenings the guardienne entertains with music on her accordian [sic].”

“I remarked to the guardienne about the number of lizards running everywhere in the ruins.”

“The guardienne has told us that the weather will be bad “il pleu toutes le jour”, so we wait till after breakfast to decide whether to take the low or high route to Refuge l’Onda.”

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