noun

• A female teacher in charge of a house at a boarding school.

  ‘she was a housemistress at Cheltenham Ladies' College’

  More example sentences

  • ‘I have previously spoken to his tutor, housemistress, and boarding housemaster.’
  • ‘Finally she returned to the school, first as a teacher in charge of physical education and subsequently also as a housemistress.’
  • ‘In 1899, she became a housemistress and teacher of classics and English.’
  • ‘One £25,000-a-year boarding school expected a housemistress to work more than 120 hours a week.’
  • ‘In 1940 and 1941 she was a housemistress at Cheltenham Ladies' College.’
  • ‘Melanie, 32, is a deputy housemistress at a school in Croydon, south London.’
  • ‘She recalled her housemistress expressing delight that the young Helen had won a music competition.’
  • ‘Mrs Wells, a retired school housemistress, said she had to go to London to show her concern about the seriousness of the world situation.’
  • ‘The housemistress was very sweet and not judgmental at all.’
  • ‘The letter from their housemistress had frightened Katherine.’
  • ‘Miss Smith was the matron, Miss Eade, assistant matron, and Miss Billing (now Mrs Owen) was housemistress; under their supervision we were far from being wayward!’