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conductorette

noun

Etymology

From conductor + -ette.

  1. derived from conductor
  2. derived from conduitor
  3. borrowed from conductour
  4. suffixed as conductorette — “conductor + ette”

Definitions

  1. A female bus, streetcar or train conductor.

    • One misty day I was riding on top of a ’bus, and when the conductorette came to get my fare, she leaned over the seat in front of mine, and kissed the wounded soldier who was sitting there.
    • A man riding a bicycle had run into the tail end of our train when his brakes failed. A conductorette happened to see the accident and reported it to the engineer.
    • On the streetcar, I put my fare into the box and the conductorette looked at me with the usual hard eyes of white contempt. “Move into the car, please move on in the car.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA