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MADAME DE MAINTENON
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• MADAME DE MAINTENON (noun)
The noun MADAME DE MAINTENON has 1 sense:
1. French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719)
Familiarity information: MADAME DE MAINTENON used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Francoise d'Aubigne; Madame de Maintenon; Maintenon; Marquise de Maintenon
Instance hypernyms:
consort (the husband or wife of a reigning monarch)
marchioness; marquise (a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess)
Context examples
The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid journalism of 1902.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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