ladies-in-waiting
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Even before that date, the young Tasso had been a frequent visitor at the Este court, where in 1561 he had encountered Lucrezia Bendidio, one of Eleanora d'Este's ladies-in-waiting, and fallen in love with her.
Eleanor recruited some of her royal ladies-in-waiting for the campaign, as well as 300 non-noble Aquitainian vassals.
In general, unlike Sei Shōnagon, Murasaki gives the impression in her diary that she disliked court life, the other ladies-in-waiting, and the drunken revelry.
Keene (1999), 414–415 Shōnagon's The Pillow Book may have been commissioned as a type of propaganda to highlight Teishi's court, known for its educated ladies-in-waiting.
Pressed into finding Dulcinea, Sancho brings back three ragged peasant girls, and tells Don Quixote that they are Dulcinea and her ladies-in-waiting.
Quoted in Warwick, p.257 As she recovered, her ladies-in-waiting kept Lord Snowdon away from her, afraid that seeing him would distress her further.