confidante

English

Etymology

From French confidente.

Noun

confidante (plural confidantes)

  1. A female confidant.
  2. A type of settee having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 20:
      Meanwhile, Sally peels herself from the stage's only prop – a green-velvet confidante – and staggers off into the wings.

Translations

Italian

Verb

confidante

  1. present participle of confidare
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