stewardess

A female flight attendant (a member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers).

A woman who works at housekeeping and passenger service aboard a ship, yacht, or other type of boat that carries passengers.

She usually rang for the stewardess early, but this morning of course there had been no ring. The stewardess had gone in all the same about eight o'clock and found the cabin empty.

Certainly a stewardess who may have fifty or even a hundred passengers to look after cannot give much attention to nursing, even if she knows how.

A female steward (any sense).

The stewardess, principal inspector of the cow stable and the butter establishment, was indeed with the young lady, who had just entered the yard.

The occasion – the very first trip of a stewardess on Capitol, eastbound B & O […]