chatelaine
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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
Apparently weighed down by her responsibilities as chatelaine of Pemberley — the need to keep up appearances and propriety — she’s become earnest and dutiful, seldom speaking her mind.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2011
Then there's Sally Simpson, "the powerful editor of the best-selling magazine Celeb, she can't wait to take her rightful place by Julian's side as his new wife and glamorous chatelaine of Number 10".
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2011
“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
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
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
Was he to travel from estate to estate and alienate the affection of young chatelaines from their favourite lieutenants?
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Ludwig Lewisohn
It contained a valuable collection of watches, snuff-boxes, rings, chatelaines and miniatures of rare and beautiful workmanship.
From The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc
