châtelaine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Courts of love, hawking, hunting, cavalcades, were the pastime of the châtelaines of the middle ages."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."