dauphin

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  1. noun The eldest son of the king of France from 1349 to 1830.
  2. noun Used as a title for such a nobleman.

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  • During the mornings the queen and Madame Élisabeth superintended the lessons of Madame Royale and the dauphin, and worked at large pieces of tapestry. —  Ruin of a Princess
  • THE UNJOYOUS ENTRY 1467 After the dauphin was crowned at Rheims, he was monarch over all his domains. —  Charles the Bold
  • The dauphin, after he had placed the wedding-ring on his bride's finger, added, as a token that he endowed her with his worldly wealth, a gift of thirteen pieces of gold, which, as well as the ring, had received the episcopal benediction, and Marie Antoinette was dauphiness of France CHAPTER III. —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
  • Not but that, in the opinion of Mercy,[1] the dauphin was endowed by nature with a more than ordinary share of good qualities. —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
  • La Chataigneraie betrayed the base secret to the dauphin, the dauphin to the king, the king to his courtiers, and the courtiers to all their acquaintance. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, title of the lords of Dauphiné, from Dalphin, Dalfin, a surname, from dalfin, dolphin (from the device on the family's coat of arms); see dolphin.

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  1. Formerly daulphin and dolphin; from Old French *dalphin, dauphin, later daulphin, modern F. dauphin = Provencal dalfin; orig. the surname of the lords of the province hence called Dauphiné, Dauphiny, who bore on their crest three dolphins, in allusion to the origin of their name, from Old French *dalphin, dauphin, doffin, French dauphin (English dolphin), Provencal dalfin, from Latin delphinus, a dolphin; hence Middle Latin Delphinus, dauphin: see delphin, dolphin.
 

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