grand-daughter

plural grand-daughters

1. datedDated form of granddaughter.

   She is the grand-daughter of poor Caroline Matilda, and he the grandson of her persecutrix, the Dowager Queen.

   1861, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight

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   Highly tenacious of preserving over the mind of Sir Aubrey an undisputed sway, Lady De Brooke had seen with great reluctance the ascendency his grand-daughters were acquiring, which she artfully hoped to repress by throwing discountenance on the visits of their father,[…]

   1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter VII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 92

   The Bube explained the situation in voluble Yiddish, and made Esther wince again under the impassioned invective on her clumsiness. […] If the family died of starvation, their blood would be upon her grand-daughter’s head.

   1892, I[srael] Zangwill, “The Sweater”, in Children of the Ghetto […], volume I, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, book I (The Children of the Ghetto), page 34

   Sometimes the budding is so rapid, that, before a fresh pair of leaves have become free they have already budded out a second pair, which we may call the grand-daughters of the parent leaf.

   1892 July 23, L.C. Miall, “The surface-film of water and its relation to the life of plants and animals”, in Pharmaceutical Journal, page 79

   About 726 he married the grand-daughter of Hsü Yü-shih, who had been Chief Minister in 657, and lived for some years at the family residence of the Hsüs in An-lu, north of Hankow.

   1969, Arthur Waley, The Poetry and Career of Li Po, 701-762 A.D., London: George Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9

   My grand-daughter goes to the same school as your twin-daughter, so that is how I know you. Maybe you know my grand-daughter, the one with the non-Somali name — Marilyn.

   1993, Nuruddin Farah, Gifts, Arcade Publishing, published 1999, →ISBN, page 71