dauphiness
Americannoun
Gender
What's the difference between dauphiness and dauphin? See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of dauphiness
Example Sentences
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The timid, shrinking dauphiness, forced to the arms of an unwilling husband, himself a mere cipher, had expanded into a fascinating woman, reigning triumphantly over the court and the affections of her vacillating spouse.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various
The unhappy dauphiness, who had long been immersed in the profoundest gloom, at last found a welcome retreat in the grave.
From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles....
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
He won the personal support of Louis XV. for his candidature, although the policy of the French ministers was to establish the house of Saxony in Poland, as the dauphiness was a daughter of Augustus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various
Angélique! do not forget to compliment Monseigneur the bishop on the dignity I have conferred upon him, of almoner to the dauphiness.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
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