infante
Americannoun
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infantes
plural
noun
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Origin of infante
1545–55; < Spanish or Portuguese; see infant
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This friar told it in confession to his superior, and the superior to the infante don Manuel, who loves thee like his own soul.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832 by Various
He granted several places in the kingdom of Naples to the infante Ferdinand, with an annual stipend of fifty thousand ducats, chargeable on the public revenues.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 by William Hickling Prescott
In 1448 dom Pedro, who had never ceased to mourn the brother he had been powerless to save, exchanged an important Moorish prisoner for father John Alvaro, secretary to the infante.
From The Red Book of Heroes by Arthur Wallis Mills
Lykewyse the tender mynde of the infante, except it bee strayghte wayes occupyed wyth fruitefull teachynges, it wyl be ouercoued wyth vyce.
From The Education of Children by Richard Sherry
You only executed my orders, and I made you the jailer of the infante!
From Napoleon and Blucher by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
As the Maracaibo began to tow the Cloud to Turiamo Naval Base, nine Venezuelan infantes, or marines, parachuted onto the deck of the mystery ship.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chilly crypts also contain the tombs of the infantes and infantas, their white marble coffins stacked in circles like the layers of a wedding cake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kings, infantes, and peers indulged the trovador out of full purses, flattered him by imitating his art and his life, and even enrolled themselves in his brotherhood.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
This day was called the dies lustricus, the day of a purificatory rite; "est lustricus dies," says Macrobius, "quo infantes lustrantur et nomen accipiunt."
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
They bowe downe their owne bodies, and drawe in theyre owne strides after the measure of the infantes.
From The Education of Children by Richard Sherry
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