chatelaines
- plural of chatelaine.
Example Sentences
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To illustrate Mr. Blahnik’s inspirations, he dressed up Ms. Birley and the Chanel creative consultant Amanda Harlech as Victorian chatelaines and captured them strolling across the fields of a British estate.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2017
But how many would have recognised its superiority to the tinsel stuff of those recent days, full of galvanised knights and stuffed chatelaines?
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
"Never!" cried Flossie, swinging in a circle so abruptly that the rattling chatelaines shot out at an angle of forty-five degrees.
From A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life by Janis, Elsie
Where are those prodigious chatelaines of 1850 which no lady could be without?
From John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character by Thackeray, William Makepeace
From the graves have been recovered chatelaines, of the fashion of those now in vogue, golden toothpicks, ear spoons, and tweezers.
From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh
