maid of honour in a sentence
Examples
- She was in rank between the maids of honour and the married ladies-in-waiting.
- As the maids of honour, a Maid of the Bedchamber retired from her office upon marriage.
- There is revelry; Tom joins the jousting and dances in the palm of a Maid of Honour.
- By February 1573 she was established in a house of her own in London in Maids of Honour.
- Walker was also the maid of honour at the wedding of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas.
- The young man hid himself under her bed, where he was discovered by her maids of honour.
- A maid of honour was a maiden, meaning that she was unmarried, and was usually young.
- She served as a maid of honour and lady-in-waiting to Queen Emma of Hawaii.
- Lady Elizabeth went to court where she served as one of Queen Elizabeth's Maids of Honour.
- From 1730 until her marriage in 1738, she served as maid of honour to Anna of Russia.