suivante

From French suivante.

suivante (plural suivantes)

1. (now historical) A lady's maid. [from 17th c.]
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 89, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, →OCLC:

     Their conductor advancing to the table, presented his offering, and pointing to the suivante, told him, that lady desired to know what would be her destiny in point of marriage.

• IPA^(key): /sɥi.vɑ̃t/

suivante f (plural suivantes)

1. lady-in-waiting, lady's maid (woman who is a servant to a lady, especially a woman of the nobility or upper class)

suivante

1. feminine singular of suivant

• “suivante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.