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grande-duchesse

grande-duchesse noun: a French grand duchess.

Noun

grande-duchesse (plural grandes-duchesses)

  1. A French grand duchess.
    • The Grand-duc and Grande-duchesse Cyril, with their children, are expected at the Elysée Palace, Cannes, for the winter.1921, Town & Country, volumes 77–78, page 54
    • Giving way to the passion of the moment, the Emperor “offers implicitly to the Czar to deliver up Poland to him as the price of a grande-duchesse.” […] [quoting Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence] Like all the grandes-duchesses she has been well brought up and educated.1925, Walter Geer, Napoleon and Marie-Louise: The Fall of the Empire, New York, N.Y.: Brentano’s, pages 134 and 147

Forms of grande-duchesse

pluralgrandes-duchesses
alternative formgrande duchesse

Origin of grande-duchesse

From French grande-duchesse.

Questions about grande-duchesse

What does grande-duchesse mean?
Grande-duchesse means a French grand duchess.
What part of speech is grande-duchesse?
Grande-duchesse is a noun.
What is the plural of grande-duchesse?
The plural of grande-duchesse is grandes-duchesses.

Words near grande-duchesse in the dictionary

  1. Grande Prairie
  2. Grande Terre
  3. grande wormwood
  4. grande école
  5. Grande Île
  6. grande-duchesse
  7. Grande-Ile
  8. Grande-Terre
  9. Grande-Île
  10. grandee
  11. grandeeism

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