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Whitney Cardozo is the chef and proprietress of Chez Foushee in Richmond, VA and the owner of vintage glassware shop, Chez at Home.—Heather Bien, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2025 At the boardinghouse, proprietress Fräulein Schneider and her Jewish tenant, Herr Schultz, who owns a fruit store, begin a serious romance with plans to marry.—Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024 The resilient Madame Marx is currently the proprietress of America's only mail-order course in classical ballet.—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 17 Jan. 2024 Charlotte Jeffers is the proprietress of Union Camp Collective, a vintage and antique shop in Raleigh, NC.—Heather Bien, Southern Living, 27 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for proprietress
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