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ˈQueenite
[f. queen n. + -ite.]
One of the partisans of a queen, esp. of Queen Caroline against George IV, or of Queen Isabella of Spain against Don Carlos.
1820J. Jekyll Corr. iii. (1894) 106 Fourteen at table..mixed of Queenites and Anti-Queenites. 1837Major Richardson Brit. Legion v. (ed. 2) 132 The inhabitants of Vitoria are infinitely more Carlists than Queenites. 1859Dk. Buckingham Mem. Geo. IV, I. 87 Theodore Hook..made the respectable portion of the Queenites heartily ashamed of their cause.
attrib.1839Thackeray Major Gahagan iii, A troop of the Queenite lancers [in Spain]. |