(n.) The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain.
(n.) An elderly lady holding a station between a governess and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a Spanish or a Portuguese family.
(n.) Any old woman who is employed to guard a younger one; a governess.
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Governess
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(n.) A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.
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(1) Banks continue to recover following the UK goverment's £500bn rescue plan announced the previous day.
(2) Greece remained centre-stage, after the Athens goverment stated that German chancellor Angela Merkel had suggested that the Greeks hold a referendum on their membership of the eurozone .
(3) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
(4) He said a Conservative goverment would sack the heads of schools that had been in "special measures" – the most serious category of concern – for more than a year.
(5) In Brussels, studying to become a governess at Heger's school, the virgin became ever more lustful.
(6) The governess of her early self-portrait was now a rather brazen woman, speaking of "things I never thought of before".
(7) The Cuban goverment is torn between isolation and closer links with the US.
(8) Part of the NSW Young Nationals’ motion was to condemn the goverment’s decision to deny its members a conscience vote.
(9) Slive closely shows how the paintings work technically as group portraits of the governors and governesses of the Haarlem almshouses where the impoverished Hals himself received charity; but Berger says of Slive’s analysis, “It’s as though the author wants to mask the images, as though he fears their directness and accessibility.” However prone Slive may be to an art historian’s preference for painterly values over social discourse, his analysis is nevertheless closer to the heart of the matter than Berger’s fanciful account of a kind of class stand-off between the destitute artist and the governors, not least because on another and more likely reading, given Hals’s approach to portraiture even of men and women in their prime, these two groups are painted with compassion but above all with a sharp eye for laying down what was before him.
(10) Updated at 7.26pm BST 7.15pm BST Antonis Samaras's new olive branch over state broadcaster ERT boils down to three points: 1) a temporary committee to hire a small number of staff to make current affairs programmes 2) a parliament vote on creating the new public broadcaster soon, maybe next week 3) loyalty and support from the junior coalition partners, to ensure the goverment keeps running.
(11) She becomes the governess to an aristocrat's children.
(12) Charlotte was an obscure, ugly parson's daughter, a sometime governess and schoolmistress.
(13) Dialogue with ministers must represent the views and interests of users of services, which local goverment is uniquely well placed and experienced to do, and must, where appropriate, include criticism.
(14) Iata, which is also demanding that European goverments compensate the airline industry, initially estimated that airlines were losing $200m a day .
(15) Marcus Gover, director of closed loop recycling at Wrap, said: "It is important that rigid plastic packaging is effectively recycled as if not carried out properly rigid plastics can contaminate the highly valuable plastic bottle waste stream – which would not be good for the economy or the environment.
(16) She sends the boy to cousins on a farm in England, where a piano-playing governess awakens the lust that proves the keynote in a series of fragmented episodes set during the years before the first world war – a prospect G relishes on account of all the women it will widow.
(17) The services given by the goverment to adolescent pregnant patients are insufficient and require immediate attention by society.
(18) It wasn't until many years later that I realised that Hayley Mills's mysterious governess in the 1964 film The Chalk Garden is called Miss Madrigal.
(19) The months since have seen a string of attacks on the community, heightened anti-Christian rhetoric by ultra-conservatives known as Salafis and fears that coming goverments will try to impose strict versions of Islamic law.
(20) Gover said football fans may not mean offence when they use the name, but that was no reason to keep using it.