lady-in-waiting / ˈleɪ di ɪnˈweɪ tɪŋ /

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lady-in-waiting 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural la·dies-in-wait·ing.

  1. a lady who is in attendance upon a queen or princess.
  2. Facetious. a woman who is pregnant: flattering fashions for the lady-in-waiting.

lady-in-waiting 近义词

n. 名词 noun

attendant to woman of royal household

更多lady-in-waiting例句

  1. I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?
  2. Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
  3. Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.
  4. This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
  5. Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
  6. Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
  7. The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.
  8. Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!
  9. We all rose to our feet, and he shook hands with everybody without waiting to be introduced.
  10. At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.