grand duchess

American  

noun

1. the wife or widow of a grand duke.

2. a woman who governs a grand duchy in her own right.

3. a daughter of a czar or of a czar's son.

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grand duchess British  

noun

1. the wife or a widow of a grand duke

2. a woman who holds the rank of grand duke in her own right

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Etymology

Origin of grand duchess

First recorded in 1750–60

Example Sentences

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grand duchess

The field marshal, prime minister and grand duchess of Fenwick declare war on the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2020

Name: Charlotte, after Charles's mother, the grand duchess.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a White Russian grand duchess posing as a housemaid in Paris in 1927, lovely Vivien Leigh does a Charleston to remember, and otherwise lights up the proceedings like a matchflare in a catacomb.

From Time Magazine Archive

His scientific passion caused his social ruin during the visit of a German grand duchess whose family was reputed to be fitted with a Darwinian decoration.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ugliness being punished with the whip, the women painted to great excess; and a traveller in sixteen hundred and thirty-six saw the grand duchess and her ladies on horseback astride, 'most wickedly bepainted.'

From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Lloyd Stephens