grand-duke

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English

Noun

grand-duke (plural grand-dukes)

  1. Alternative form of grand duke
    • 2012, Francis Cunningham, A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Bexley, →ISBN:
      The grand-duke of Baden has given him money to purchase Testaments.
    • 2014, Émile Zola, Money, →ISBN:
      All of Paris knew this mansion for its splendid entertainments, and above all, its admirable collection of paintings which no grand-duke on his travels would fail to visit.
    • 2015, Maurice Leblanc, 813, →ISBN:
      Does he look like a grand-duke?
    • 2015, William Dean Howells, Roman Holidays and Others, →ISBN:
      Anything is imaginable of an early Medicean grand-duke, but in a manner the father's murderous fury was provoked by the fact, if it was a fact, that Don Garzia had just mortally wounded his brother Giovanni.