usheˈrette
[f. usher n. + -ette.]
A female usher in a cinema or theatre.
| 1925 College Humor Aug. 66/2 The obese usherette in the toney movie house who has to wear a different fancy dress costume every week. 1926 Bulletin 27 Feb. 2 Thirty beautiful girls..will receive visitors to..the Plaza, at its opening on Tuesday. They will be called ‘usherettes’. 1948 Times 24 Feb. 7/4 Will the usherette hush the little fellow crying in the stalls. 1960 M. Spark Ballad Peckham Rye vii. 136 She's an usherette at the Regal from six-thirty to ten-thirty. 1980 R. Butler Blood-Red Sun at Noon (1981) ii. i. 129 Nothing in her career as theatre usherette, conjuror's assistant and night⁓club hostess had prepared her for this kind of life. |