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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

When he turned the corner of his thirty-first year he had a sharp illness, a temporary reformation, and brought home as his wife a very young lovely actress from the ducal theatre at Saxe-Meiningen.

From The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry

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