chatelaine

This while substituting for her mother as the rectory’s chatelaine, with all the submission and drudgery that entails.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2018

The conversation is interrupted momentarily when Lady Carnarvon, the estate's current chatelaine, pops by to fix herself an espresso.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2015

Deborah, who married a nobleman and became chatelaine of the vast Chatsworth estate in central England, died last week aged 94.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2014

These haunted images are punctuated by portraits, retrieved from a long forgotten cupboard, of the former chatelaine.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2013

Daisy found it impossible to keep her eyes off her ‘pitty aunty’, but attached herself like a lap dog to the wonderful chatelaine full of delightful charms.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

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 Bartlett Burleigh James

The outer door had slammed, and Flossie Forsythe entered with the usual harmonious accompaniment of the rattling chatelaines.

From A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life by Elsie Janis

Eleanor and Katharine Neville were sisters, true enough, but Eleanor is dead and you have wed a second time; while Katharine still chatelaines my castles of Ashby and Calais.

From Beatrix of Clare by Clarence F. Underwood

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