chatelaine
noun
the mistress of a castle.
chatelaines
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pluralof chatelaine.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
The worthy old ladies were wont to carry a silver grater and Nutmeg case suspended from the waist on their chatelaines.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
Hairpins with which the Saxon ladies bound up their tresses, chatelaines with tweezers for removing superfluous hairs, toothpicks, scissors, and small knives, are very frequent, and combs made of bone.
From English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
The chatelaines worn by the ladies of olden time were bulky, and the various objects deemed necessary to carry about the person rendered them cumbersome in the extreme.
From Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess
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 William Lyon Phelps
