单词 | dukeling |
释义 | dukelingn. 1. A little or petty duke. (Contemptuous; in quot. 16341, one who claims to be a duke.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > duke or duchess > [noun] > duke > petty duke dukeling1634 dukelet1870 1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck ii. sig. D4 This Duk-ling Mushrome Hath doubtlesse charm'd the King. 1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck v. sig. K Vrswicke, command the Dukeling, and these fellowes, To Digby, the Lieftenant of the Tower. 1890 H. M. Stanley In Darkest Afr. I. xiv. 363 No proud dukeling in England could regard a pauper with more pronounced contempt. 2. A duke's child. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > duke or duchess > [noun] > child of duke dukeling1612 1612 J. Sylvester Lacrymæ Lacrymarum 139 For Savoy's Dukelings, or the Florentine, Hee [Prince Henry] wedds his Saviour of a Regall Line. a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. ii. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eee/1 The Duke gone thither, doe you say?..And all the ducklings too. 1690 J. Crowne Eng. Frier iii. 24 Little Squirelings, and Knightlings, and Lordlings, and Dukelings. 1794 J. Wolcot Rowland for Oliver in Wks. II. 411 Duke, Dukeling, Princess, Prince, consign'd to jail! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1612 |
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