I swear the future proprietresses of the fancy art business may go to the deuce, as far as I am concerned."
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
The widely-separated farmhouses then became typical lunch stations for the burghers, and the women willingly were the proprietresses.
"With the Boer Forces"
Howard C. Hillegas
It also somewhat relieved the housing problem by the purchase of leases from the proprietresses of a number of disorderly houses which were closed by the police.
"Negro Migration during the War"
Emmett J. Scott