kaiserin

plural kaiserins

1. Alternative letter-case form of Kaiserin.

   Next came a parade, before the seated spectators, of two thousand firemen and a hundred engines, marching past the kaiser and his kaiserin to the music of a military band.

   1983, William Manchester, “Headwaters, 1874–1895”, in The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, volume [1] (Visions of Glory, 1874–1932), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 169

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   Herr [Friedrich] Ebert said to the first German National Assembly, “We will be an empire of Justice and Truth.” They will have to change the decorations in the schoolroom first—take the kaisers and the kaiserins, the battle-ships and the submarines and the von Hindenburgs off the walls, […]

   1919 May, Peter Clark Macfarlane, “In the Enemy’s Country”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXVI, number 6, New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 132

   In 1898, Sultan Abdul-Hamid II gave the Dome of the Rock a hurried renovation and erected a great Turkish crescent atop it to mark the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and his kaiserin, Augusta Victoria.

   1972, Jerry M. Landay, “Zion Regained”, in Dome of the Rock (Wonders of Man), New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, →ISBN, “A History of Jerusalem” section, page 127, column 2

   The evening after the child presented her gift to the kaiserin—who gave her a diamond pin in the shape of the imperial eagle—her dress caught on fire from a lit candle.

   2008, Jane Fletcher Geniesse, “Notes”, in American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem, New York, N.Y.: Nan A. Talese, →ISBN, note 25, page 337

plural Kaiserins

1. historicalThe wife of a Kaiser.

   The Kaiser’s and Kaiserin’s journey to the Holy Land furnishes another occasion to Empress Marie to vent her feelings with regard to William II.

   1938, Edward J[ohn] Bing, “Nicholas on the Throne”, in The Secret Letters of the Last Tsar: Being the Confidential Correspondence between Nicholas II and His Mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, page 128

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   We should have expected the Kaiser to curse them and the weather, not to weep. Weeping? Kaisers and Kaiserins and Count Zeppelins should be made of sterner stuff.

   [1917], Herbert Warren, “‘And such a brave Zepp he was’”, in The “Land & Water” Edition of Raemaekers’ Cartoons, volume II, London: […] “Land & Water,” […], →OCLC, page 86

   The Kaiserin, who rarely or never took a hand in politics, was tempted by this personal provocation, and lodged a request that [Alfred von] Kiderlen[-Waechter] “along with his mistress” might be left in Bucharest—a suitable place for him.

   1933, Joachim von Kürenberg, translated by E[mily] O[verend] Lorimer, “A Closed Door”, in His Excellency the Spectre: The Life of Fritz von Holstein, London: Constable and Company Ltd., →OCLC, page 227

2. Rosa ‘Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria’, a white hybrid tea rose cultivar.

   In May I exhibited my Paul Neyrons and Kaiserins with tremendous boastfulness, but they have long since stopped blooming, while these languid mornings find you daintily decked in pink.

   1910 July 2, Margaret Busbee Shipp, “A Woman’s Nondescript Garden”, in Watson’s Jeffersonian Magazine, volume XIII, number 1, Thomson, Ga.: Jeffersonian Publishing Company, published May 1911, →OCLC, page 42

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   W. H. Elliott tried the experiment of throwing out a bench of Kaiserins at Christmas that had been blooming all summer and substituting Brides and Bridesmaids for winter flowering and judging from present appearances it was a success.

   1899 March 4, “Boston”, in The American Florist, volume XIV, number 561, Chicago, Ill.: American Florist Company, →OCLC, page 908, column 2

   Of all white hybrid teas, Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria is the best known. While the popularity of even the finest of roses is generally short lived, the wonderful Kaiserin still leads in its color class after a reign of fifty-nine years. […] The class for Kaiserins at the Potomac Rose Shows in Washington, D. C, for example, is the special favorite of thousands of flower lovers.

   1950, James Alexander Gamble, “Two Remarkable White Roses”, in Roses Unlimited, [Harrisburg, Pa.]: […] [T]he author, →OCLC, pages 18–19