The word hostess is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to a female who hosts parties or other events, or the female attendant on an airplane, train, or other vehicle. Example: The hostess welcomed everyone to the party with a bright smile.
He is urged to be careful by an air hostess who is assisting him in his quest to rescue his daughter from the clutches of a deposed South American dictator.
Making an entrance At an Oscars night party last year a guest asked her hostess whether she knew anyone who could give her a lift home.
Or disruptive like REM's Peter Buck, who attempted to play a CD on the hostess trolley, sat next to a passenger and insisted she was his wife – she wasn't – raided bottles from the galley after he had been told he couldn't have any more booze and threw yoghurt over everyone?
'Where do you need to go?' asked the hostess.
Prosecutor David Bate QC said Buck had also tried to sit next to another female passenger claiming she was his wife, before turning his attention to a hostess trolley, upending it and sending crockery flying.
A wide stone spiral staircase leads to the simply but grandly decorated high-ceilinged rooms, where old family furniture, vast stone fireplaces and beds with richly textured canopies, finely stitched by your talented hostess, preserve the medieval flavour; the bathrooms (also generously proportioned) are state of the art.
Arnie kills a hoodlum on a plane, and turns to the air hostess: "Please don't disturb my friend.
Dominique, a cultured hostess full of energy and enthusiasm, has a flair for decoration, as her paintings, coverings and contemporary and country furniture show.
The kidnapped air hostess turned sidekick, feistily played by Rae Dawn Chong, gets some good lines, wisely puncturing one scene with "I can't believe this macho bullshit" – but she's underused.
Later, watch the sun set over the Xantos valley with a glass of wine, then enjoy the cooking of the hostess, Mel, who buys all her ingredients from the local village.
Another persona was "the Hostess", so generous and talkative to the lefty and literary flotsam who crammed into her London flats, when inside she would be crushed from some unwise love affair or other, or just wanting to be alone.
