confidante

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A female confidant.

   • Dany’s descent into madness is coming, of that there’s no doubt, especially given that the episode ends with the execution of her confidante Missandei.
2. 2

   A type of settee having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.

   • Meanwhile, Sally peels herself from the stage's only prop – a green-velvet confidante – and staggers off into the wings.
3. 3

   Nonstandard spelling of confidant (male).

   • To Major Smiley, as his friend, his adviser, and his confidante, Adolphus Fitzopal had opened his heart […]
   • Henry Wilberforce was one of his few confidantes, certainly the one of longest standing, now that Bowden and Froude were gone and Rogers declined to correspond with him.
   • The fortunate confidante is lost in anonymity. He is a character who has always intrigued biographers […] [but] nothing is known about his name or his personal history.

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