lady of the bedchamber
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The Countess of Luçay, a gentle, kindly woman, thoroughly familiar with the customs of good society, was lady of the bedchamber.
From The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
"Please your majesty," answered a lady of the bedchamber, "it signifies that her imperial majesty, the reigning empress, has returned from her walk in the palace gardens."
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
I am constantly picturing to myself, how would it have been if Zenza had become first lady of the bedchamber, and her son, the poacher, master of the hounds.
From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach
Judith died April 2, 1705, and in the September of the following year the Lord Keeper married Mary Clavering, the beautiful and virtuous lady of the bedchamber to Caroline Wilhelmina Dorothea, Princess of Wales.
From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson
Lady Berkeley is lady of the bedchamber, and Miss Lawson maid of honour.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
