Definitions for chatelaine

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chatelaine chat·e·laine

Spelling: [shat-l-eyn; French shahtuh- Chatelaine is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 569 anagrams from letters in chatelaine (aaceehilnt).

Definitions for chatelaine

noun

1. the mistress of a castle.
2. the mistress of an elegant or fashionable household.
3. a hooklike clasp or a chain for suspending keys, trinkets, scissors, a watch, etc., worn at the waist by women.
4. a woman's lapel ornament resembling this.

Origin of chatelaine

From the French word châtelaine, dating back to 1835-45. See chatelain

Examples for chatelaine

His own face was in shadow and the chatelaine could not distinguish its features.

The chatelaine was perhaps the most characteristic of all eighteenth-century ornaments.

Rhodes never could think of her as the chatelaine of those wide ranges.

He was still in a fog, but he saw a ray of hope; this was the chatelaine, it seemed.

The man was patently the Puritan prisoner, the woman was the chatelaine of Harby.

But his hand moved and he found Miss Lymans chatelaine as she bent over him.

For the latter purpose it was subsequently supplanted by the chatelaine.

She took her note-book out of her chatelaine bag and handed it to Mrs. Boyce.

And there he left him to await the coming of the chatelaine.

There was no stationery in the desk, but Mary had a pocket diary in her chatelaine bag.