chatelain
Americannoun
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chatelains
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of chatelain
< Middle French < Latin castellānus castellan
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Monsieur le Maire told us that the chatelain came often, and never forgot to invite him to meet the guests at the castle.
From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
He was there more than fifteen days or the prince would speak with him because of the chatelain of Amposte and his men, who were against him in the battle of Poitiers.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
Evidently the chatelain used to enter by climbing up through Villeneuve-Loubet as we had done.
From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
Louis XIV was not the last of royal race to accept the Chateau de Maintenon's hospitality for the unhappy Charles X was obliged to ask shelter of its chatelain for himself and fleeing family.
From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by Blanche McManus
When Monsieur le Maire spoke of the chatelain, I had my opening.
From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
When feudalism, through the formation of larger political units by the extension of kingly rights, began to decline, the chatelains preserved their prestige by supporting the propaganda to redeem the Holy Sepulcher.
From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
Moonlight was sufficient to read inscriptions that set forth in detail the pedigree of the chatelains.
From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
The chatelains were marquesses and counts and knights of Malta and seigneurs of a dozen domains of the northlands as well as of Provence.
From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons
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