GOVERNESS

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governess substantiv

1. guvernantă; educatoare, pedagogă.

2. învăţătoare, institutoare.

3. (înv.) menajeră bătrână.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

"Indeed," cried Rosamond, "she is clever enough to be a governess in a high family, papa."

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I am in touch with Miss Dobney, Lady Frances’s governess.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Governess, or something of that sort.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

She was your governess, I think?

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Five daughters brought up at home without a governess!

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

As she would not hear of staying to dinner, lest she should by any chance fail to arrive at home with the grey pony before dark; and as I apprehend Mr. Wickfield knew her too well to argue any point with her; some lunch was provided for her there, and Agnes went back to her governess, and Mr. Wickfield to his office.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

A coach was allowed to Glumdalclitch and me, wherein her governess frequently took her out to see the town, or go among the shops; and I was always of the party, carried in my box; although the girl, at my own desire, would often take me out, and hold me in her hand, that I might more conveniently view the houses and the people, as we passed along the streets.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

‘As governess?’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Hamilton had left school, had married not long afterwards, was said to have married a man of fortune, and this was all that Anne had known of her, till now that their governess's account brought her situation forward in a more decided but very different form.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Don't address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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