grand-duc

plural grands-ducs · alternative grand duc

1. A French grand duke.

   The Grand-duc and Grande-duchesse Cyril, with their children, are expected at the Elysée Palace, Cannes, for the winter.

   1921, Town & Country, volumes 77–78, page 54

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   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.

   2001, Carter Wiseman, I.M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture, New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →ISBN, page 312

   [Louise Lévêque de] Vilmorin covered the Kelly-Grimaldi nuptials in Monaco in 1956, skewering the American guests, whom she stops just short of calling hayseeds, for “thinking they’d been transported to the era of grands-ducs and grands bancos.”

   2009 February 19, Christopher Petkanas, “Chichi Devil”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2019

   The most important introduction Gontaut made for her was to Grand-Duc and Grande-Duchesse Wladimir of Russia, the GDWs to their intimates.

   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

   Liane de Pougy, Emilienne d’Alençon, Cléo de Mérode, Caroline Otéro sablaient le champagne que leur offraient les aristocrates en renom, les grands-ducs, au bar des Folies-Bergère, haut-lieu de l’amour vénal.

   2023, [François Bonal], quotee, “The pleasure of Cabarets, Dance-halls and Ballrooms”, in The Virtual Wine Museum, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2023