duchesse

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A French duchess.

   “Ary Scheffer, the drawing-master of the young Orleans princesses, offered to go with Thiers and procure him an audience of the duc or duchesse, or Madame Adélaïde.”

2. isim A type of dressing table with a swing glass.

   “One morning, during my first week at school, I sneaked into Mum and Dad's bedroom, opened the top drawer of the duchesse, where the coins ‘brought back from the war’ were kept, and helped myself to a handful.”

3. isim Ellipsis of duchesse lace.
4. isim Obsolete spelling of duchess.

   “The Lord of Ragny carryed her in the place of Diana Ducheſſe of Angouleſme, who repreſented the Infanta Iſabella Clara Eugenia, Archducheſſe of Auſtria, being followed by the daughters of Rohan, Montmorencie, and Mayenne, who were Virgins, and the Ducheſſes of Rohan, Suilly, and others.”