Almanach de Gotha

[ awl-muh-nak duh goth-uh; German ahl-mah-nahkh duh goh-tah; French al-ma-na duh goh-tah ]

noun

1. a publication giving statistical information on European royalty.

Example Sentences

Back in the sitting room, where a lone Ukrainian maid, Olga, responded to her call by draping an old black mink coat over “the principessa,” the American reached for the Almanach de Gotha, a thick yellow directory of Europe’s royalty and higher nobility.

From Seattle Times

Instead, he's a Prussian aristocratic supremacist, who disdains the low-born Hitler as readily as he would disdain anyone else who didn't have several pages and a fancy engraving in the Almanach de Gotha.

From The Guardian

"But you forget," said he, "that--" "That he, in a fit of ill-temper, out of spite, has thrown himself at the feet of a fade, insipid girl, who finds a place in the almanach de Gotha, where her heart is also," she cried, rising hastily from her recumbent position, with flashing eyes.

From Project Gutenberg

But chief of all such publications is the ancient Almanach de Gotha, containing the modern kinship of royal and princely houses, and now accompanied by volumes dealing with the houses of German and Austrian counts and barons, and with houses ennobled in modern times by patent.

From Project Gutenberg

Find out the name of this new princess if you can, but don't look for it in the Almanach de Gotha.

From Project Gutenberg