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English
Noun
châtelaine (plural châtelaines)
- Alternative form of chatelaine
1864, “The “Courts of Love” in Provence”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume LVI, London: Chapman and Hall, translation of Les Cours d’Amour, les Comtesses et Châtelaines de Provence by [Jean-Baptiste] Capefigue, page 392:Courts of love, hawking, hunting, cavalcades, were the pastime of the châtelaines of the middle ages.
1895, G F Browne, “The Château in the Ardennes”, in Off the Mill: Some Occasional Papers, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., page 161:They could not tell me where it was, or who the châtelaines, / But they knew it was a château, in the heart of the Ardennes.
1918, Henry B Fuller, On the Stairs, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Hougton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, part V, section I, page 145:Mrs. Raymond Prince vaguely pronounced their house “amusing.” It had, like Adele McComas herself, a provocative dash which fell in with her present mood, and it pleased her that its châtelaine was inclined to dress up to its wayward sofas and hangings.
2011, “The Great Old Hunter”, in Gareth Knight, transl., The Romance of the Faery Melusine, Skylight Press, translation of original by André Lebey, →ISBN, page 14:Townsmen, imitating the lords, possessed some fine hunters on the perch, and girls of modest upbringing even equalled the châtelaines in dressing a fine crested bird on the glove.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃa.tlɛn/ ~ /ʃɑ.tlɛn/
Noun
châtelaine f (plural châtelaines)
- female equivalent of châtelain
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