grand-duc

See also: grand duc

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French grand-duc. Doublet of grand duke.

Noun

grand-duc (plural grands-ducs)

  1. A French grand duke.
    Coordinate term: grande-duchesse
    • 1921, Town & Country, volumes 77–78, page 54:
      The Grand-duc and Grande-duchesse Cyril, with their children, are expected at the Elysée Palace, Cannes, for the winter.
    • 2001, Carter Wiseman, I.M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture, New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →ISBN, page 312:
      To one side was a small pavilion that would, the backers hoped, eventually house the private art collection of the grand-duc and his wife.
    • 2009 February 19, Christopher Petkanas, “Chichi Devil”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 July 2019:
      [Louise Lévêque de] Vilmorin covered the Kelly-Grimaldi nuptials in Monaco in 1956, skewering the American guests, whom she stops just short of calling hayseeds, for “thinking they’d been transported to the era of grands-ducs and grands bancos.”
    • 2018, Caroline Weber, Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, published 2019, →ISBN, page 196:
      The most important introduction Gontaut made for her was to Grand-Duc and Grande-Duchesse Wladimir of Russia, the GDWs to their intimates.
    • 2023, [François Bonal], quotee, “The pleasure of Cabarets, Dance-halls and Ballrooms”, in The Virtual Wine Museum‎[2], archived from the original on 2 June 2023:
      Eliane[sic] de Pougy, Cléo de Mérode, Caroline Otéro and Emilie d'Alençon quaffed champagne offered to them by the grands-ducs in the bar of the Folies-Bergère, hotspot of venal love.
      [original: Liane de Pougy, Emilienne d’Alençon, Cléo de Mérode, Caroline Otéro sablaient le champagne que leur offraient les aristocrates en renom, les grands-ducs, au bar des Folies-Bergère, haut-lieu de l’amour vénal.]

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʁɑ̃.dyk/

Noun

grand-duc m (plural grands-ducs, feminine grande-duchesse)

  1. grand duke
    faire la tournée des grands-ducs ― to paint the town red
  2. Eurasian eagle-owl
    grand-duc d'Amérique ― great horned owl
    grand-duc d'Europe ― Eurasian eagle owl
    hibou grand-duc ― Eurasian eagle owl

Descendants

  • → Arabic: غْرَانْدُوق (ḡrāndūq)
  • → English: grand-duc
  • → Persian: گراندوک (gerânduk)
  • → Turkish: grandük

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