lady of the bedchamber
Example Sentences
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What choice have we?" said the ready-witted maiden, "unless you deem it better to wait till the Lady Lochleven herself plays lady of the bedchamber.
From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir
"Quite willingly, if the first lady of the bedchamber does not object."
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
Since that, he wrote a letter to the King, and sent it by his son, Lord Beauchamp, resigning his regiment, his government, and his wife's pension, as lady of the bedchamber to the late Queen.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter
Let the first lady of the bedchamber say it's superstition--it's true, for all.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
Again Pauline Rigonda gave way to merry laughter, and again did her lady of the bedchamber administer a reproof by expressing the hope that she might take the matter as lightly a year hence.
From The Island Queen by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
