Definitions for fontange

fontange fon·tange

Spelling: [fawn-tahnzh]
IPA: /fɔ̃ˈtɑ̃ʒ/

Fontange is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in fontange (aefgnnot).

Definitions for fontange

noun

  1. Often, fontanges. commode (def 4).

Origin of fontange

1680-90; French, named after Marie Angélique de Scorraille de Roussilles, Duchess of Fontanges (1661-81), mistress of Louis XIV

Examples for fontange

There is no doubt that fontange died by poison; she accused Montespan of being the cause of her death.

The old woman feared there might be some among them to whom the King might take a fancy, as he had done to Ludre and fontange.

He then turned his attention to her companion, fontange, who was also very pretty, but not very sensible.

fontange, fong-tanzh′, n. a tall head-dress worn in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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