Usherette

Quick meaning: Usherette is a noun meaning (dated) A female usher.

Meaning

(dated) A female usher.

Example Sentences

And then the usherette opened the doors of this dark palace and with a flashlight held behind her took him to his seat.

[…] I won’t even see her again till next Saturday night on account of her doing week-nights as an usherette at the Regal […]

But please don’t call them usherettes. […] “Usherette makes us sound as if we’re miniature ushers or something. It’s an old term that we’re trying to get rid of.”

It is such a tiny little place that at first I thought I had gone wrong, and was in an antechamber. Plain papered walls, ascetic chairs, a moldy piano, and a couple of usherettes seemed extremely bare.

Word Forms

• usherettes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include usheress, underusher, usher, usuress, bumbrusher, usurpress.

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