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The feminine form, châtelaine, refers to the mistress of a castle or château, or the mistress of any large medieval household. [2] It can also refer to a woman's ornamental chain worn around the waist, with keys, a purse, timepiece, or other household attachments.
Château de Versailles. A château (French pronunciation:; plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions.
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Schloss Ludwigslust in Germany. Schloss (German pronunciation:; pl. Schlösser), formerly written Schloß, is the German term for a building similar to a château, palace, or manor house.
The prepositions à (' to, at ') and de (' of, from ') form contracted forms with the masculine and plural articles le and les: au, du, aux, and des, respectively.. Like the, the French definite article is used with a noun referring to a specific item when both the speaker and the audience know what the item is.
Following the death of Francis I, King Henry II continued to expand the chateau. The King and his wife, Catherine de' Medici, chose the architects Philibert de l'Orme and Jean Bullant to do the work. They extended the east wing of the lower court and decorated it with a horseshoe-shaped staircase, which was later enlarged, and became a symbol ...
Chateau (Pittsburgh), a neighborhood in the city of Pittsburgh, PA; The Chateau (Denver, Colorado), a building on the National Register of Historic Places in Denver, Colorado; Chateau Theatre or The Chateau, a building in Rochester, Minnesota, listed on the NRHP; Oregon Caves Chateau or The Chateau, a historic hotel in Oregon Caves National ...
Nouns seem to possess a well defined but covert system of grammatical gender. We may call a noun masculine, feminine or neuter depending on the pronouns which it selects in the singular. Mass or non-count nouns (such as frost, fog, water, love) are called neuter because they select the pronoun it. Count nouns divide into masculine and feminine.