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Among them is Giorgio Taroni, 77, a collector and the chatelain of a rambling 9,000-square-foot lakeside villa built in the early 1900s by his grandfather Ettore Taroni, a silk industrialist, in the region’s main city of Como.—
Nancy Hass Henry Bourne,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2023 The former practiced medicine in the suburbs of Massachusetts; the latter, after working in marketing for Renault’s racing division, claimed his birthright as a chatelain and spent decades restoring Baronville.—
Lauren Collins,
The New Yorker,
24 June 2018
Word History
Etymology
Middle English chateleyn, from Middle French chatelaine, from Old French chastelein, castelain