toastmistress

[ tohst-mis-truhs ]

noun

1. a woman who presides at a dinner, introduces the after-dinner speakers, and often proposes toasts. toast.

Gender Note

See -ess.

Word History and Origins

Origin of toastmistress¹

First recorded in 1920–25; toast ² + mistress

Example Sentences

Healths were drunk in cocoa, side-splitting toasts proposed by the witty toastmistress, Migwan, and songs sung that made the roof ring.

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Mrs. Hoffman was toastmistress and about twenty men and women responded to toasts.

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Sally May was to be toastmistress and to Judith had been given the honour of replying to the last toast—the toast to "The School."

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It wasn’t surprising that Eleanor Watson, with her newly acquired duties as toastmistress, should keep getting outside the circle to consult various toasters and members of the supper committee; but it did seem as if Betty Wales might stay quietly in her place.

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Tell Christy how pleased you are that she’s toastmistress and then come down town with me.”

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