anguissette

But I have been an anguissette all my life, and I have grown accustomed to dealing with the distraction.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

In all the years we had been together, as consort and mistress, as lovers, as courtesan and Cassiline, he had never seen me with a patron — not truly, not as the anguissette I am.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

It was unusual, in a Servant of Naamah; in an anguissette, unheard-of.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Phèdre nó Delaunay de Montrève — Comtesse de Montrève; anguissette

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

And yet even as I thought it, I ached elsewhere, with the soul-deep need of an anguissette that no kindness, no compassion could assuage.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

And so I wore a Jebean gown in the blood-at-midnight color of sangoire, which only I, as the sole anguissette in living memory, was entitled to wear.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

It was limned by Master Robert Tielhard himself, before he died; it is a crime now, to duplicate it for any but an anguissette.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

From this, I was not exempt; the anguissette who banished an angel.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

I am an anguissette; I have been so all of my life.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Thence the need for an anguissette to balance the scales.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003