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    A proprietress is a woman who owns a business — the old gendered pair of proprietor. You meet it on old hotel signs, in novels, in stories about a boarding house or a little shop. Though actually, most people now just say proprietor for a woman as well. Using -ess makes the gender the point, and many women who own shops do not want that extra label. It is not wrong; it is dated. If you use it today, you are choosing an older voice, not a more correct one. The same thing happened to actress for some speakers, but proprietress has further: in a modern news story, a woman who owns a café is almost always the proprietor, or simply the owner.

    女店主、女老闆（偏舊；現在多半直接說老闆）

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組成From proprietor + -ess: the old suffix that marked a woman.

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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

proprietressnoun

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    datedA female proprietor.

    • In addition, the proprietress is a Nazi. We barely escaped with our lives.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。