Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
lady-in-waiting .
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Examples
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Since Prince Edward left the television industry, Julian Fellowes, a lord married to one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, is the closest British TV has to royalty.
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As we were getting ready to leave [for Balmoral] we were told we had been disinvited because one of the ladies-in-waiting had discovered that my partner and I weren't married and had told the Queen.
Jonathan Powell accuses John Yates of 'cavalier' approach over Met inquiry Nicholas Watt 2010
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Or is O Sara Bin Failin one of her ladies-in-waiting??
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She has to stump up for her footmen's uniforms, her lawyers, her comptrollers, her embossed stationery, her gleaming motor cars, her ladies-in-waiting and her bodyguards 'bullet-proof jackets.
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So if you catch the royal ladies-in-waiting emptying a few canapes into their handbags today, please turn a blind eye.
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He saw to it that a team of midwives and ladies-in-waiting watched over her, as a fever slowly killed her.
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She has to stump up for her footmen's uniforms, her lawyers, her comptrollers, her embossed stationery, her gleaming motor cars, her ladies-in-waiting and her bodyguards 'bullet-proof jackets.
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Beatrice Alexander discussing the ladies-in-waiting from the Coronation set with two colleagues,
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So if you catch the royal ladies-in-waiting emptying a few canapes into their handbags today, please turn a blind eye.
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The miniature bride and groom, properly veiled and suited, are preceded by a young boy baring a rod and followed by a bevy of tiny, twittering ladies-in-waiting.
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