Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess.
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- noun rare A
Lady in the household of aqueen orprincess who attends her as a personal servant, generally considered anhonour . - noun A woman who is a
servant to a lady. Similar to avalet for agentleman .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess
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Examples
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It represents a big change in both the life of the bride-to-be and the lady-in-waiting, and in their relationship with each other.
Dr. Irene S. Levine: 'Bridesmaids': Overpromise Left Me Feeling Flat Dr. Irene S. Levine 2011
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It represents a big change in both the life of the bride-to-be and the lady-in-waiting, and in their relationship with each other.
Dr. Irene S. Levine: 'Bridesmaids': Overpromise Left Me Feeling Flat Dr. Irene S. Levine 2011
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Best of all are the sober-faced portraits of Empress Sissi (whose name the café's plays on), Marie Louise, her alleged lady-in-waiting (and the distant aunt of one of the owners) and, finally, Süssi herself, the owner's long-haired Dachshund.
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From the moment she bids farewell to her lady-in-waiting Emilia, through her melancholy "Willow Song" and the desperate prayer aria that follows, Fleming approaches perfection in one of the most moving moments in opera.
Fleming's Moving Desdemona Heats Up the Stage in Paris Judy Fayard 2011
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Lady Cremorne was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte, which must have made life for her slightly awkward after the Declaration of Independence.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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She does justice to the author's often richly poetic text, and plays many characters well—Desdemona, Othello, both their mothers and Desdemona's lady-in-waiting, Emilia—often in conversations with one another in the Afterlife.
So It Wasn't Jealousy After All? David Littlejohn 2011
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From the moment she bids farewell to her lady-in-waiting Emilia, through her melancholy "Willow Song" and the desperate prayer aria that follows, Fleming approaches perfection in one of the most moving moments in opera.
Fleming's Moving Desdemona Heats Up the Stage in Paris Judy Fayard 2011
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Lady Cremorne was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte, which must have made life for her slightly awkward after the Declaration of Independence.
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She bestowed a necklace to her lady-in-waiting after losing a match.
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She and her lady-in-waiting (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) discover afterward that their mates are not quite the steady customers that they had previously seemed.
'Merchant of Venice': Al Pacino's Shylock is a moving take on an immovable man 2010
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