dauphiness

plural dauphinesses

1. Synonym of dauphine.

   As dauphin and dauphiness they naturally had a great following, and as king and queen their taste was paramount, and the style became established.

   1920, Lucy Abbot Throop, Furnishing the Home of Good Taste

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   After gaining his confidence by her sincerity and trustworthiness, and making herself indispensable to him, she succeeded in bringing about the desired separation, through the medium of the dauphiness, whom she won over to her cause.

   1908, Hugo P. Thieme, Women of Modern France

   Melvil was born in Fifeshire in the year 1530, of a family patronized by the queen regent, Mary of Guise, who having taken into her own service his brothers Robert and Andrew, both afterwards noted in public life, determined to send James to France to be brought up as page to the queen her daughter, then dauphiness.

   1818, Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

   Synonyms: dauphine