grand-duc

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English

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Etymology

From French grand-duc.

Noun

grand-duc

  1. A French grand duke.
    Coordinate term: grande-duchesse
    • 1921, Town & Country, volumes 77–78, page 54:
      The Grand-duc and Grande-duchesse Cyril, with their children, are expected at the Elysée Palace, Cannes, for the winter.
    • 2001, Carter Wiseman, I.M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture, New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →ISBN, page 312:
      To one side was a small pavilion that would, the backers hoped, eventually house the private art collection of the grand-duc and his wife.
    • 2018, Caroline Weber, Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, published 2019, →ISBN, page 196:
      The most important introduction Gontaut made for her was to Grand-Duc and Grande-Duchesse Wladimir of Russia, the GDWs to their intimates.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

grand-duc m (plural grands-ducs, feminine grande-duchesse)

  1. grand duke
    faire la tournée des grands-ducs ― to paint the town red
  2. Eurasian eagle-owl
    grand-duc d’Amérique ― great horned owl
    grand-duc d’Europe ― Eurasian eagle owl
    hibou grand-duc ― Eurasian eagle owl

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