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Definitions
a chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc.
Word origin
Borrowed from French châtelaine, the feminine form of châtelain (“castle-keeper, castellan; one living in a castle”), from Medieval Latin castellanus (“occupants of a castle”), from castellum (“castle, fort”) (diminutive of castrum (“castle, fort”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut off, separate”)) + -ānus (“of or pertaining to”). By surface analysis, Old French chatel + French -aine.
Used in a sentence
“Cars passed her on the road; the people of the quarry town knew her and bowed to her; she was considered the chatelaine of the countryside, as her mother had been long ago.”
“The latest fashion is to wear watches suspended from the chatelaine. The chatelaine is short, and ornamented with charms.”
“Châtelaines are generally lovely things, but for our part we can never look upon them without feeling them to be more or less of a reproach to our modern want of thrift.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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