suivante
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editsuivante (plural suivantes)
- (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
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsuivante f (plural suivantes)
- lady-in-waiting, lady's maid (woman who is a servant to a lady, especially a woman of the nobility or upper class)
Adjective
editsuivante
Further reading
edit- “suivante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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