châtelaine

See also: chatelaine

English

Noun

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.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.tlɛn/ ~ /ʃɑ.tlɛn/

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Noun

châtelaine f (plural châtelaines)

1. female equivalent of châtelain

Descendants

• → English: chatelaine

Further reading

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