“dame de compagnie”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

dame de compagnie

释义

‖ dame de compagnie|dam də kɔ̃paɲi|
Also, semi-anglicized damdecompany.
[Fr.; lit. ‘lady of company’.]
A paid female companion. Also transf.
1784H. Mann Let. 8 Oct. in H. Walpole Lett. (1858) VIII. 518 The duchess brought with her, as a dame de compagnie, a Frenchwoman.1821Shelley Let. 18 Feb. (1964) II. 265 The situation of Dame de compagnie is one indeed in which there is little to be hoped compared with what is to be feared.1832Edin. Rev. July 481 The female professor, late dame de compagnie to La Fayette.1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxiii. 289 Marry a drawing-master's daughter, indeed!—marry a dame de compagnie—for she was no better, Briggs.1885‘L. Malet’ Col. Enderby's Wife ii. iii, A nice, gentle, little person in grey, who put in an appearance at dinner—dame de compagnie, I suppose.1897Sat. Rev. 5 June 641 ‘Mees’ became a ‘damdecompany’ to an old Contessa.

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