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n. (plural of chatelaine English)
Usage examples of "chatelaines".
She would have liked to live in some old manor-house, like those long-waisted chatelaines who, in the shade of pointed arches, spent their days leaning on the stone, chin in hand, watching a cavalier with white plume galloping on his black horse from the distant fields.
Rosy paused to examine them more closely, wondering if she was correct in interpreting that the bend sinister in one quarter of it with the fleur-de-lys meant that at some point in history one of the chateau's chatelaines had been a Royal mistress and had borne her lover a son.
On their belts and sashes men and women wore chatelaines (80), or ornamental attachments of metal or metal on leather from which were hung various useful articles such as milk-pail hooks, tweezers, toothpicks, needlecases, flint and tinder pouches, sheaths for knives and chopsticks, pencases, inkbottles and stamps for personal seals (81).
Villagers, deacons, chatelaines, nuns, even simple day laborers: All of them wanted gossip of the world beyond because few of them had ever ventured more than a day's walk from their home-and even fewer had actually seen the king and his court.
When we went to private houses, he needed only a very rapid inspection in order to know all the objects in a room, as well as the various ornaments worn by the spectators, such as chatelaines, pins, eyeglasses, fans, brooches, rings, bouquets, etc.
From the ladies' girdles and chatelaines, harnessed with silver and gilt, hung keys and purses and little knives in pretty sheaths to match the armbands, brooches, and jeweled pins of these human peacocks.