châtelaine

châtelaine (plural châtelaines)

1. Alternative form of chatelaine
   • 1864, “The “Courts of Love” in Provence”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume LVI, London: Chapman and Hall, translation of Les Cours d’Amour, les Comtesses et Châtelaines de Provence by [Jean-Baptiste] Capefigue, page 392:

     Courts of love, hawking, hunting, cavalcades, were the pastime of the châtelaines of the middle ages.

   • 1895, G[eorge] F[orrest] Browne, “The Château in the Ardennes”, in Off the Mill: Some Occasional Papers, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., page 161:

     They could not tell me where it was, or who the châtelaines, / But they knew it was a château, in the heart of the Ardennes.

   • 1918, Henry B[lake] Fuller, On the Stairs, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Hougton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, part V, section I, page 145:

     Mrs. Raymond Prince vaguely pronounced their house “amusing.” It had, like Adele McComas herself, a provocative dash which fell in with her present mood, and it pleased her that its châtelaine was inclined to dress up to its wayward sofas and hangings.

   • 2011, “The Great Old Hunter”, in Gareth Knight, transl., The Romance of the Faery Melusine, Skylight Press, translation of original by André Lebey, →ISBN, page 14:

     Townsmen, imitating the lords, possessed some fine hunters on the perch, and girls of modest upbringing even equalled the châtelaines in dressing a fine crested bird on the glove.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.tlɛn/, /ʃɑ.tlɛn/

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châtelaine f (plural châtelaines)

1. female equivalent of châtelain

• → English: chatelaine

• “châtelaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.