grand-duke

A form of grand duke — Ruler or monarch of a grand duchy.

Meanings

noungrand-duke (plural grand-dukes)

plural grand-dukes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of grand duke.

    Does he look like a grand-duke?

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    The grand-duke of Baden has given him money to purchase Testaments.

    2012, Francis Cunningham, A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Bexley, →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.

    2014, Émile Zola, Money, →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.

    2015, William Dean Howells, Roman Holidays and Others, →ISBN
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