Hostess
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Middle English: from Old French ( h)ostesse, feminine of ( h)oste (see host1).
wiktionary
From Middle English hostesse, from Middle French hostesse, from Old French ostesce, made up of oste(“host”) + -esce(“feminine marker”).
etymonline
hostess (n.)
late 13c., "woman who keeps an inn or public hotel," from host (n.1) + -ess, or from Old French ostesse, hostesse "hostess; servant; guest" (Modern French hôtesse). Old French also had ostelaine; the Latin word was hospita. Meaning "woman who presides at a dinner party, etc." recorded by 1822. Also used mid-20c. in sense "female who entertains customers in nightclubs," with overtones of prostitution.
