confidente
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of confidente
< French, special use of confidente female confidant
Example Sentences
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In January 2018, Brigitte Macron: L’affranchie came out, followed four months later by Brigitte Macron: La confidente.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2019
I left the theatre after the first act of La Mère confidente.
From A Mummer's Tale by Roche, Charles E.
The woman who dazzled the ball-room, was frequently the confidente of the deepest designs of party.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
The reading parts were so distributed by the manager, the Princess, that she herself got the Princess, Julienne the confidente Leonore, Albano the Poet Tasso, a youthful-cheeked Chamberlain the Duke, and Froulay Alphonso.
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
They were beginning the figure called la confidente.
From The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
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