confidante

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noun

a woman to whom secrets are confided or with whom private matters and problems are discussed.

Furniture. confidente.

Origin:
1700–10; < French confidente

Can be confused: confidant, confidante, confident.

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confidante (ˌkɒnfɪˈdænt, ˈkɒnfɪˌdænt)

—n
	a person, esp a woman, to whom private matters are confided

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Word Origin & History

confidante

1709, "female confidant," from Fr. confidente, fem. of confident (see confidant).

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confidante

type of sofa that has a seat at each end separated from the main seat by an upholstered arm. This form was first used in France in the mid-18th century and was subsequently introduced into England. George Hepplewhite illustrated one in Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788).

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Example sentences

She was a friend and confidante to a wide array of people of all ages who loved her for her warmth and wit.

She would become what was described as his closest confidante.

He had been looking for someone who knew the university and could act as a confidante and a messenger.

Bob is a true friend and confidante to those who are trying to survive day by day.

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"A journal intime is a super-confidante to whom everything is told and confessed. For an engaged or married man to have a secret super-confidante who knows things which are concealed from his lady seems to me to be deliberate infidelity. I am as it were engaged to two women and one of them is being deceived...I would have my wife know all about me and if I cannot be loved for what I surely am, I do not want to be loved for what I am not. If I continue to write therefore she shall read what I have written."

-W.N.P. Barbellion

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