guardienne

Etymology
+, female-agent noun suffix

Noun

 * 1) A woman, girl, or other female force who or which guards; a female guardian.
 * 2) * 1897: Samuel Mathewson Baylis, Camp and Lamp, page 87 (Wm. Drysdale & Co.)
 * As we had the only available crafts, gallantry would dictate that we should, at least, make formal tender of these; but our wrath was high against the guardienne at the gate permitting so many more to pass where the resources were already fully taxed that, each waiting for the other raft-party to do their duty, and both satisfied that pic-nics could better be held on dry land than aboard wet rafts, no move was made by either of us — and the fishing proceeded!
 * 1) * 2008: Stephen Platt and Scharlie Platt, Corsica GR20 South, page 23 (Lulu.com, Leveret Publishing; ISBN 9780955838408)
 * The guardienne has told us that the weather will be bad “il pleu toutes le jour”, so we wait till after breakfast to decide whether to take the low or high route to Refuge l’Onda.
 * 1) * 2008: Stephen Platt and Scharlie Platt, Corsica GR20 South, page 23 (Lulu.com, Leveret Publishing; ISBN 9780955838408)
 * The guardienne has told us that the weather will be bad “il pleu toutes le jour”, so we wait till after breakfast to decide whether to take the low or high route to Refuge l’Onda.
 * The guardienne has told us that the weather will be bad “il pleu toutes le jour”, so we wait till after breakfast to decide whether to take the low or high route to Refuge l’Onda.