Châtelaine

Courts of love, hawking, hunting, cavalcades, were the pastime of the châtelaines of the middle ages.

They could not tell me where it was, or who the châtelaines, / But they knew it was a château, in the heart of the Ardennes.

Mrs. Raymond Prince vaguely pronounced their house “amusing.” It had, like Adele McComas herself, a provocative dash which fell in with her present mood, and it pleased her that its châtelaine was inclined to dress up to its wayward sofas and hangings.

Townsmen, imitating the lords, possessed some fine hunters on the perch, and girls of modest upbringing even equalled the châtelaines in dressing a fine crested bird on the glove.