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dauphiness

[ daw-fi-nis ]

noun



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Gender Note

What's the difference between dauphiness and dauphin? See -ess.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dauphiness1

1540–50; earlier daulphiness. See dauphin, -ess
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Example Sentences

Then I shall make you change your note; which will help me in the good graces of the dauphiness, whom you have offended.

Catherine was therefore less happy and less powerful after she became queen of France than while she was dauphiness.

After the meal, the dauphiness came out on the balcony to take leave of her hosts.

The courtiers passed under the balcony to salute the king, who named such of them to the dauphiness as she did not already know.

Above all she had dwelt upon the necessity of not letting the Choiseul party win possession of the dauphiness.

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