kaiserin

Noun capitalized: Kaiserin

Kaiserin (plural Kaiserins)

1. (historical) The wife of a Kaiser.
   • We should have expected the Kaiser to curse them and the weather, not to weep. Weeping? Kaisers and Kaiserins and Count Zeppelins should be made of sterner stuff.[1917], Herbert Warren, “‘And such a brave Zepp he was’”, in The “Land & Water” Edition of Raemaekers’ Cartoons, volume II, London: […] “Land & Water,” […], →OCLC, page 86
   • The Kaiserin, who rarely or never took a hand in politics, was tempted by this personal provocation, and lodged a request that [Alfred von] Kiderlen[-Waechter] “along with his mistress” might be left in Bucharest—a suitable place for him.1933, Joachim von Kürenberg, translated by E[mily] O[verend] Lorimer, “A Closed Door”, in His Excellency the Spectre: The Life of Fritz von Holstein, London: Constable and Company Ltd., →OCLC, page...
2. Rosa ‘Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria’, a white hybrid tea rose cultivar.
   • W. H. Elliott tried the experiment of throwing out a bench of Kaiserins at Christmas that had been blooming all summer and substituting Brides and Bridesmaids for winter flowering and judging from present appearances it was a success.1899 March 4, “Boston”, in The American Florist, volume XIV, number 561, Chicago, Ill.: American Florist Company, →OCLC, page 908, column 2
   • In May I exhibited my Paul Neyrons and Kaiserins with tremendous boastfulness, but they have long since stopped blooming, while these languid mornings find you daintily decked in pink.1910 July 2, Margaret Busbee Shipp, “A Woman’s Nondescript Garden”, in Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine, volume XIII, number 1, Thomson, Ga.: Jeffersonian Publishing Company, published May 1911, →OCLC...