grandaunts
- plural of grandaunt.
Example Sentences
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When the two royal grandaunts, Queen Maud of Norway and Louise, Princess Royal, both sisters of the King, rode out to see the newborn unchristened Duchess, ill luck attended them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your grandmother or grandaunts took you there and said the pictures were admirable.
From John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character by Thackeray, William Makepeace
In Hamburg I was welcomed, too, by uncles and aunts, first and second cousins, male and female, and by a strong contingent of grandaunts.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
I'm going to stay with my grandaunts this summer.
From Betty Leicester A Story For Girls by Jewett, Sarah Orne
One of the grandaunts was a sister of Heinrich Heine, the poet.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix
