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MADAME DE MAINTENON

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Overview

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)play

  Familiarity information: MADAME DE MAINTENON used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


MADAME DE MAINTENON (noun)


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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