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A chain formerly worn at the waist by women
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chatelaine
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Chatelaine is an English-language Canadian magazine of women's lifestyles and the number one magazine in Canada in paid circulation. Both Chatelaine and its French-language version, Châtelaine , are published monthly by Rogers Media , a division of Rogers ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The parlour was little less disturbing than its chatelaine .
WordNet
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n. the mistress of a chateau or large country house a chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Chatelaine \Chat"e*laine\, n. [F. ch[^a]telaine the wife of a castellan, the mistress of a chateau, a chatelaine chain.] An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845, from French châtelaine "a female castellan; wife of a castellan; mistress of a castle or country house;" fem. of châtelain , from Old French chastelain "owner and lord of a castle, castellan, nobleman," from chastel (see chateau ). In fashion, as ...
Usage examples of chatelaine.
The assemblies of the barons, which coincided in the south with ancient popular fetes in Maytime praise of Venus, offered apt occasions for the vernal entertainments of the chatelaines.
He had also acquired four honest servingmen, sons of stewards, chatelaines, or castellans, each one a relative of one of his soldiers who had died.
Count Lavastine sat behind a table, attended by Chatelaine Dhuoda, Lord Geoffrey, Frater Agius, and the captain of the Lavas guard.
By then Olivia had been to the chateau, and been told where the chatelaine was.
I want, but if I marry Rhodry and get turned into his chatelaine and castellan and the mother of his heirs and the Goddess herself only knows what else, am I going to be able to have it?
Alain watched them: the arrogant chatelaine, her attendants, the learned deacon and the young frater, who, a man, was sworn to the order of wandering priests rather than to a monastery where a man would be interred for his entire life within the walls of a single cloister.
Every person in the village came to the common to watch Chatelaine Dhuoda collect taxes.
Glancing behind, he saw Chatelaine Dhuoda hastily moving her table into one of the houses that bordered the common, to do the rest of her business under shelter.
After bittersweet farewells, he slung his pack over his back and followed Chatelaine Dhuoda and her retinue out of the village, into the world beyond.
The journey this spring, however, took fifteen days because the chatelaine and her company stopped at every village and steading to accept taxes or rents or a young person in service for the upcoming year.
He and the others were promptly herded into the fort, where they waited in an untidy line in the huge dirt yardthe outer courtas Chatelaine Dhuoda and her retinue set up a table and began to call the company forward one by one.
Alain leaned against the low fence that hemmed in the open side of the shed and listened as Heric delivered his message in a vivid, penetrating voice to Chatelaine Dhuoda and her shadow cleric, the frater.
Lavastine turned away and walked over to Lord Geoffrey, and then, as if nothing untoward had happened, he returned to his chatelaine and they vanished into the hall.
I have asked Chatelaine Dhuoda if it is possible that you are the bastard son of Count Lavastine.
If it is your will, I will speak to my captain and to my chatelaine about the matter.