单词 | purserette |
释义 | purserette|ˌpɜːsəˈrɛt| [f. purser + -ette.] A female purser on a ship or other form of transport.
1959Times 17 Mar. 4/4 Miss Suzette Pienaar, who has joined the Union-Castle Line to become an Afrikaans-speaking ‘purserette’. 1960Aeroplane XCVIII. 453/1 Inside of 707 is rather fun... The Purser (we note the big-ship touch) introduces us to the Purserette (we come ashore again rapidly). 1970New Scientist 28 May 431/2 A new technique that British Rail is using to make uniforms for hovercraft purserettes—the low-flying equivalent of the air hostess. 1975Times 19 Feb. 14/7 Of the 90,000 sea staff on British ships..only a thousand or two are women and..practically all are in ‘female roles’: nurses, stewardesses, purserettes. |

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