confidant
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noun
(feminine
confidante
pronounced same)
a
person
with whom one
share
s a
secret
or
private
matter
,
trusting
them not to
repeat
it to others:
(何でも打ち明けられる)親友, 腹心の友.
e.g.
a close confidante of the princess.
ORIGIN
mid
17th century
: alteration of
confident
(as a noun in the same sense in the early
17th century
), probably to represent the pronunciation of
French
confidente
‘having
full
trust
’.