dauphin
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Origin of dauphin
1475–85; < French; Middle French dalphin, after Dauphiné ( def. ), from an agreement to thus honor the province after its cession to France
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The objective in the decisive event was to fly over the Dauphin� Alps to Toulon, some 250 miles south, on the Mediterranean.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the next 20 years he studied war at the head of a ragtag army of freebooters in the Alpine foothills and civil administration as lord of his duchy of Dauphin�.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was already governor of Dauphin�, and now became grand chamberlain, prince of Joinville, and hereditary seneschal of Champagne, with large additions to his already considerable revenues.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
In 1532 William Farel, a Protestant preacher from Dauphin�, who had converted Vaud, &c. to the new belief, first came to Geneva and settled there in 1533.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
The phenomena are sporadic in Germany and Switzerland, in the Dauphin� and the Cevennes; they occur in larger numbers and are often hereditary in certain families, in Denmark, the Scotch Highlands and the Faroe Islands.
From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de
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