margravine
Americannoun
noun
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the wife or widow of a margrave
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a woman who holds the rank of margrave
Etymology
Origin of margravine
1685–95; < Middle Dutch marcgravinne, equivalent to marcgrave margrave + -inne feminine noun suffix; compare German Markgräfin
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After his decease, the margravine, who succeeded to the large property which he left, felt impatient to recommence her wanderings.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
The margravine, we are afterward told, dies of grief at the news, as does old Queen Ute at her abbey of Lors.
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence
Little it irked the noble margravine that he was come so well and sound from the Rhine.
From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway
Ah! might it please th' Almighty," Sir Rudeger replied, "That the margravine hereafter should give you more beside!
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Soon the noble margravine / her high rejoicing showed, That all safe and sound he / from the Rhine was come again.
From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by George Henry Needler
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