Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as princekin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A petty prince.

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  • noun A petty prince.

Etymologies

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prince +‎ -let

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Examples

  • But such a weak, puny, wailing princelet as he was!

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • It was also the night of the cotillon given by a certain princelet of unpronounceable name and great wealth, who hailed from one of those countries in Europe where quasi-royalties abound.

    The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest

  • As she rode home in a taxicab that was like a refrigerator she passed in the Fifth Avenue mêlée Zada L'Etoile, now Mrs. Cheever, with the tiny little Cheever like a princelet asleep at her breast, hiding with its pink head the letter "A" that had grown there.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • Instead of shaking a "mailed fist" at the world, young William of Hohenzollern might have been a mediatized princelet on the lookout for an American heiress; there might never have been a Leipzig or a Waterloo, as there certainly would not have been a Sedan, and the heirs of Napoleon might now have been ruling over an empire covering all Central Europe, from the Tiber to the Baltic.

    Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers 1906

  • Clean-skinned, copper-colored, lithe and wiry as a tiger cat, with the long, lank, oily black hair of his race, Norton bore himself with all the airs of a European princelet and dressed himself in the beaded buckskins of a savage.

    Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark 1903

  • Fancy a woman of superlative beauty, of the highest courage and calmness, a woman of many resources, of genius, brought up by a petty princelet of a father, upon Tacitus and Sallust, and the tales of the great Malatestas, of Caesar Borgia and such-like!

    Hauntings Vernon Lee 1895

  • Emperor himself to that of the most insignificant prince or princelet, and whose advice was sought and carefully heeded on all important occasions.

    German Culture Past and Present Ernest Belfort Bax 1890

  • But she was married to the first princelet who happened to catch the eye of Empress Frederick, namely Prince Bernhardt of Saxe-Meiningen ” aye, and she was hustled into matrimony in such a hurry, too, as to give a sort of foundation for some shameful and base slanders, cruelly unmerited, but which one hears even Germans who profess loyalty to the crown repeating to this day.

    The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De 1900

  • And she of whom you think is but the daughter of a Welsh princelet. "

    A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex 1884

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