gardienne

The church was open for a couple of hours a day, watched over by a terrifying gardienne dressed all in black, who scared the living daylights out of me.

Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

There are long echoing marble corridors, plants in the entrance hall and a live-in gardienne, whose curtain twitches every time she hears an unfamiliar voice outside her door.

intruder 2006

There are long echoing marble corridors, plants in the entrance hall and a live-in gardienne, whose curtain twitches every time she hears an unfamiliar voice outside her door.

rollercoaster 2006

On the contrary, I shall be your gardienne tutelaire — wat you call? — guardian angel — ah, yes, that is it.

Uncle Silas 2003

When the old woman (gardienne) appeared she was speechless with delight!

Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

The same gardienne came to my knock, and in answer to her shrill cry a negro lad appeared to hold my horse.

The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909

I knocked at the wicket, the same gardienne answered the call, smiled, led me through the cool, paved archway which held in its frame the green of the court beyond, and up the stairs with the quaint balustrade which I had mounted five years before to meet Philippe de

The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909

Madame la Vicomtesse, who had better use for her words than to waste them at such a time, left me, went to the balcony, and began to give the gardienne in the court below swift directions in French.

The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909

I was ushered into a brick-paved archway that ran under the latticed gallery toward a flower-filled court-yard, but ere we reached this the gardienne turned to the left up a flight of steps with a delicate balustrade which led to an open gallery above.

The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909

The gardienne looked me over, and evidently finding me respectable, replied with many protestations of sorrow that he was not, that he had gone with Mamselle very early that morning to his country place at Les Iles.

The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909