ǁ Chatelain

Also 6 chetelyne, 7 -aine. [a. mod.F. châtelain:—OF. chastelain.] = CHASTELAIN, CASTELLAN. (Obs. as an Eng. title.)

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1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. lxv. 87. Therle of Mountfort entred into the castell … and receyued the feaultie of all the men of that Chatelayne. Ibid. (a. 1533), Huon, cxxxiii. 493. Then the chatelyne of y^e toune came to huon.

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1643. Prynne, Sov. Power Parl., II. 17. The foure Chatelaines … of the Castles of Northampton, Kenelworth, Nottingham, and Scarborough.

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1822. Byron, Werner, I. i. 340. The Chatelains must keep Their Castle walls.

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