châtelaine

plural châtelaines

1. alternativeAlternative form of chatelaine.

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

   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

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   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.

   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

   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.

   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

   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.

   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