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Saxe-Meiningen

American  
[saks-mahy-ning-uhn] / ˈsæksˈmaɪ nɪŋ ən /

noun

  1. a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.


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His creations scared the crap out of groundlings and aristocrats alike, including the Queen of Denmark and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen.

From The New Yorker Oct. 29, 2019

After ascending the throne, he lived in the Teddington palace with his queen, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally in 1951, at 38, he married Germany's Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen.

From Time Magazine Archive

To Archduke Otto von Habsburg, 52, scholarly pretender to the Austrian throne until 1961, when he renounced his claim; and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 39: their seventh child, second son; in Munich.

From Time Magazine Archive

HILDBURGHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, situated in a wide and fruitful valley on the river Werra, 19 m.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

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