chatelaine

Here, she plays the statuesque chatelaine of a grand but oppressively gloomy country house.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2019

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

It seems the Duchess of Northumberland, chatelaine of Alnwick and creator of the Poison Garden, keeps several stuffed dogs up at the castle.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 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

“Indeed, my lord, this collar and chain do hold me fast,” I said, touching my ruff and the links of the chatelaine at my waist, where my needlework tools were suspended.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

She jingled with chains and watches and lockets and chatelaines, carried more rings than a cane rack, and walked with the air of the heroine of the society drama at the opera house.

From In Our Town by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger

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

I dare say poor chatelaines had to do that in times of famine, when their lands had been pillaged.”

From A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

He found again on her shoulder the amber colouring of the "Odalisque Bathing"; she had the long waist of feudal chatelaines, and she resembled the "Pale Woman of Barcelona."

From Madame Bovary by Eleanor Marx Aveling