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ladies-in-waiting
[ ley-deez-in-wey-ting ]
Example Sentences
Weighed down by accumulating stress, Cromwell falls ill, and in his delirium sees in the shadows Anne's ladies-in-waiting, hands covered in their mistress' blood.
In a nod to the “slimmed-down†nature of this coronation, they’re not called ladies-in-waiting, but ladies in attendance — another example of how this ceremony has been updated, but only sort of.
Some of Charlotte’s ladies-in-waiting even complained to the king about their punishing working conditions.
They will carry out some of the tasks that the late Queen's ladies-in-waiting performed, such as supporting her at public engagements.
I read all her books, all her poems, all her diaries as well as the diaries of her daughter and her ladies-in-waiting to really get as close as I can to anything like the reality.
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