English
hostessing
From hostess + -ing.
Formed from hostess + -ing
Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis ‘lord, master’
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Old French oste ‘host’
Old French ostesce ‘female innkeeper or keeper of a lodging’
Middle French hostesse
Middle English hostesse
English hostess
Today it means
noun The work of a hostess.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hostessing