MAINTENON

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• MAINTENON (noun)
  The noun 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: MAINTENON used as a noun is very rare.

• 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)