dauphiness

[ daw-fi-nis ]

noun

1. dauphine.

Gender Note

What's the difference between dauphiness and dauphin? See -ess.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dauphiness¹

1540–50; earlier daulphiness. See dauphin, -ess

Example Sentences

Then I shall make you change your note; which will help me in the good graces of the dauphiness, whom you have offended.

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Catherine was therefore less happy and less powerful after she became queen of France than while she was dauphiness.

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After the meal, the dauphiness came out on the balcony to take leave of her hosts.

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The courtiers passed under the balcony to salute the king, who named such of them to the dauphiness as she did not already know.

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Above all she had dwelt upon the necessity of not letting the Choiseul party win possession of the dauphiness.

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