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‖ souffre-douleur|sufrədulœr|
Also souffre douleur.
[Fr., lit. ‘suffer sorrow’.]
One who is in a subservient position and must listen to or share another's troubles; also spec. a woman who acts as a paid companion to an older woman.
1845M. Gardiner Strathern II. xvii. 17 The woman on whose arm she leans is her dame de compagnie, her souffre douleur. 1864C. M. Yonge Trial II. iii. 55 A younger brother and legitimate souffre douleur. 1907M. E. Braddon Dead Love has Chains i. 3 She had her maid and her souffre-douleur, a dowerless kinswoman of six-and-twenty. 1962Punch 7 Nov. 684/1 Josephine, employed as Aunt March's souffre-douleur. 1981W. Gérin Anne Thackeray Ritchie xx. 240 When away from home he always wrote regularly to his ‘souffre douleur’. |