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Ditte Perschke, the youngest of three sisters from a small town in Denmark, studied Service & Hotel Management in Copenhagen before swapping hotels for the elite world of luxury yachts, working as a chief stewardess catering to the demands of high-profile owners.
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Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Viral video captured on March 5, 2023, showed Torres shouting while standing above his seat, before taking off into the plane's aisle and attacking a stewardess with a broken metal spoon.
—Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2025
For Sheldon, who had been born into a farming family in central Wisconsin before the Civil War, and for other women like her, the position of ship stewardess was a rare and, from the outside, glamorous chance to see the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 21 July 2025
At the time, the stewardess insisted the items were to manage her anxiety.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 1 July 2025
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Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Viral video captured on March 5, 2023, showed Torres shouting while standing above his seat, before taking off into the plane's aisle and attacking a stewardess with a broken metal spoon.
—Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2025
For Sheldon, who had been born into a farming family in central Wisconsin before the Civil War, and for other women like her, the position of ship stewardess was a rare and, from the outside, glamorous chance to see the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 21 July 2025
At the time, the stewardess insisted the items were to manage her anxiety.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stewardess
steward
Noun
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Deck stewards regularly spray down the decks to keep them clean and prevent salt corrosion.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Jan. 2026
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When the National Western brought back the draft horse show in 1981 after a 40-year hiatus, Dennis was the ring steward.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Stewardess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stewardess. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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