regina

plural reginas

1. Alternative letter-case form of Regina (“queen”).

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   In this box the regina of the colony, surrounded by her harmonious, cleanly, industrious, skilful subjects, carries on her part of procreation, and finally hatches her numerous progeny, called by Bee-masters the larvæ.[…]The Bees will immediately commence their operations in their new apartment. Thus swarming is effectually prevented; and thus the Queen gains a vast addition to her dominions, and consequently additional space for the population of her momentarily enlarged domicile. There is now no want of store-house room, nor of employment, for our indefatigable labourers. And while the subjects are employed in collecting, and manufacturing (if I may so say) their various materials, the regina is engaged in carrying on the great, first principle of nature—the propagation of her species.

   1832, Thomas Nutt, “Bee-Boxes and Managament of Bees in them”, in Humanity to Honey Bees: or, Practical Directions for the Management of Honey Bees upon an Improved and Humane Plan, […], Wisbech, Cambridgeshire: […] H. and J. Leach, […], pages 34 and 37

   Chiri says: “Pouf, child! That is not because she is grand. The Regina Margherita is grander, and she bows and smiles a dozen ways all at once. It is the heart.” Chiri says that—but if it is only the heart, she herself would make a very grand lady because her heart is of gold; and her smile is better than the regina’s, although some of her teeth are quite gone, and her skin is dark like the castagnola.[…]“[…]But it has the bicyclists attending!” / “That is true. Then it must belong to the Queen Margherita!” / “It is not the regina’s coachman!” / “Parbleu, you are right! Then it may be the foreign prince who is visiting!”

   1910, Olive M. Briggs, The Fir and the Palm, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pages 94 and 287

   He is, in any case, extremist enough to have decided to assassinate the Queen, out of frustration with his ‘token life, token education, token job, token family.’ He impresses Percy with his proposal to restore the ‘Ancient Kingdom of Northumbria’ and persuades him to help with the ‘reginicide.’ But the regina changes her route[…]

   1977, The Spectator, page 28, column 3

   George No. Don’t ring the … / (Ruby rings the bell several times.) / Ruby Thank you. The Regina is rapidly approaching./[…]/ Ruby AND SMILE – A TRIUMPHANT REGINA IS LANDING ON THE LAWN. / George WILL YOU STOP SAYING THAT. We don’t talk about reginas. / Ruby So it’s David. / George Her Majesty is not a … not in the vernacular. It’s official. For coins …

   2006, Vanessa Brooks, Queen’s English, London: Josef Weinberger Plays, →ISBN, pages 63 and 75

alternative regina

1. formalusually italicizedThe reigning queen.

   Your Good FRIEND, / ANNE Regina. / SUNDERLAND.

   1707, Anne Regina, “A Letter from Her Majesty the QUEEN of Great Britain, to the Governour and Counsellors of State, of the Sovereignty of Neufchatel and Vallangin”, in The Present State of Europe: or, the Historical and Political Monthly Mercury, […], volume XVIII, number 10, London: […] Henry Rhodes […]; […] Eliz. Harris, page 445

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   The conveying of the Duc de Nevers and a Capuchin father to Civita Vecchia in 1608, was, indeed the Regina’s [Marie de’ Medici’s] sole real commission.

   1908, Louis Batiffol, Marie de Médicis and the French Court in the XVIIth Century, London: Chatto & Windus, page 99

   Jesus is the new Adam, and Mary as the Queen of Heaven is His spouse and the perfection of Eve. / Perhaps the most explicit example of this felix culpa is displayed in the van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece. The artist used the same model for the shockingly nude Eve and for the Virgin Annunciate and her elevation to the heavens as the Regina, married to her own resurrected Son. Similarly, the model whom he used for Adam reappears in the inner presentation of the Altarpiece as Jesus in the role of the Regina’s Spouse.

   2013, Carl A. P. Ruck, Mark A. Hoffman, “Semen from the Heavens”, in Entheogens, Myth, & Human Consciousness, Berkeley, Calif.: Ronin Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, section “Forces of Light and Darkness”

   After work, she [Queen Victoria] would roll in her wheelchair along the smooth paths between the cypresses, palms and urns overflowing with flowers that crammed the Regina’s paradisical garden.

   2018, Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN

2. The capital city of Saskatchewan, Canada, with a metropolitan population of about 250,000.

   Synonyms: Pile of Bones

3. A neighborhood in the community of Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States.
5. A census-designated place in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States.
6. An unincorporated community in Lancaster County and Northumberland County, Virginia, United States.
7. An unincorporated community in the town of Almon, Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States.
8. A female given name from Latin.

   Of course, her name isn't really 'Ree-Jane'; it's Regina Jane Davidow. I have always thought the name itself rather wonderful and am only sorry it belongs to her.

   1996, Martha Grimes, Hotel Paradise, Headline, →ISBN, page 5