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Recent Examples of lady-in-waiting
Katharine spent years languishing as a lady-in-waiting to a lady-in-waiting.
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Eva Wolchover, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Captured in the image is the late Queen Elizabeth and her lady-in-waiting, Lady Pamela Hicks, loyally by her side as the royal navigated her new role on the world stage.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
The Lady Grace Mysteries tells the story of Lady Grace Cavendish, an orphan raised to be a lady-in-waiting at the royal court of Queen Elizabeth I, who becomes the world’s first female teenage detective.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Other fan-familiar characters include Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser (Jamie’s godfather and Brian’s cousin, played by Rory Alexander) and Mrs. Fitz (Ellen’s lady-in-waiting and Murtagh’s mother, played by Sally Messham).
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
But while many ladies-in-waiting suffered as their queens fell out of favor, Jane has the distinction of being the only one to lose her actual head.
—Eva Wolchover, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Captured in the image is the late Queen Elizabeth and her lady-in-waiting, Lady Pamela Hicks, loyally by her side as the royal navigated her new role on the world stage.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
One fateful day, the queen’s carriage halted before him, leading to the purchase of a one-of-a-kind cameo bracelet adorned with rubies, gold flowers and leaves by one of her ladies-in-waiting.
—Thomas Waller, WWD, 16 Aug. 2024
The girls had to learn the lady-in-waiting movement, how to serve the food, how to serve tea.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
Eva Wolchover, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Captured in the image is the late Queen Elizabeth and her lady-in-waiting, Lady Pamela Hicks, loyally by her side as the royal navigated her new role on the world stage.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
The Lady Grace Mysteries tells the story of Lady Grace Cavendish, an orphan raised to be a lady-in-waiting at the royal court of Queen Elizabeth I, who becomes the world’s first female teenage detective.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Other fan-familiar characters include Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser (Jamie’s godfather and Brian’s cousin, played by Rory Alexander) and Mrs. Fitz (Ellen’s lady-in-waiting and Murtagh’s mother, played by Sally Messham).
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
But while many ladies-in-waiting suffered as their queens fell out of favor, Jane has the distinction of being the only one to lose her actual head.
—Eva Wolchover, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
Captured in the image is the late Queen Elizabeth and her lady-in-waiting, Lady Pamela Hicks, loyally by her side as the royal navigated her new role on the world stage.
—Simon Perry, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
One fateful day, the queen’s carriage halted before him, leading to the purchase of a one-of-a-kind cameo bracelet adorned with rubies, gold flowers and leaves by one of her ladies-in-waiting.
—Thomas Waller, WWD, 16 Aug. 2024
The girls had to learn the lady-in-waiting movement, how to serve the food, how to serve tea.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lady-in-waiting
Noun
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It’s based on the true story of a Jewish child in 1850s Italy who was secretly baptized by a chambermaid and then abducted by the papal police and raised Catholic.—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Dec. 2024
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Her follow-up project, The Hotel (1981), saw Calle assuming the role of chambermaid at a Venetian inn.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
26 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid so to speak.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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The general practitioner murdered his wife, Isabella, and their nursemaid, Mary, before dismembering them and scattering their body parts in an attempt to thwart the investigation into their murders, according to the BBC.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
8 Dec. 2024
Noun
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This helps explain why the maidservant was subjected to multiple inspections, with a succession of witnesses rooting around beneath Hall’s skirts and petticoats for firm proof.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2024
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In 1627, a professional lace-maker named Thomasine Hall boarded a ship in England and arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, to become a maidservant in the household of a man named John Tyos.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2024
Noun
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Cassidy said she was surrounded by her mom, the couple's housekeeper and childhood friends during the ordeal.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Since the disappearance some weeks prior of his best friend, Dr. Watson, and his housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock’s been forbidden from crime-solving by shadowy but definitely murderous forces, who make their presence known to him by way of scarlet threads planted at crime scenes.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Floridians are tired of being sacrificed to the gun lobby’s fanaticism and to the cynicism of its Tallahassee handmaidens.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Dec. 2024
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In Gilead, women exist in complete subordination to men, especially the handmaids, a class of women who are still fertile despite an ongoing environmental catastrophe that has decimated birth rates.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
7 Dec. 2024
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“Lady-in-waiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lady-in-waiting. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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