suivante

English

Etymology

From French suivante.

Noun

suivante (plural suivantes)

1. (now historical) A lady's maid. [from 17th c.]
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     Their conductor advancing to the table, presented his offering, and pointing to the suivante, told him, that lady desired to know what would be her destiny in point of marriage.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɥi.vɑ̃t/

Noun

suivante f (plural suivantes)

1. lady-in-waiting, lady's maid (woman who is a servant to a lady, especially a woman of the nobility or upper class)

Adjective

suivante

1. feminine singular of suivant

Further reading

• “suivante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.