Definition of "lady-in-waiting" []

• A Lady in the household of a queen or princess who attends her as a personal servant, generally considered an honour. (noun)
• A woman who is a servant to a lady. Similar to a valet for a gentleman. (noun)

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• "She does justice to the author's often richly poetic text, and plays many characters well—Desdemona, Othello, both their mothers and Desdemona's lady-in-waiting, Emilia—often in conversations with one another in the Afterlife."
• "Best of all are the sober-faced portraits of Empress Sissi (whose name the café's plays on), Marie Louise, her alleged lady-in-waiting (and the distant aunt of one of the owners) and, finally, Süssi herself, the owner's long-haired Dachshund."
• "From the moment she bids farewell to her lady-in-waiting Emilia, through her melancholy "Willow Song" and the desperate prayer aria that follows, Fleming approaches perfection in one of the most moving moments in opera."