Definition of Duchesse

1. a type of table-cover [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Duchesse

dubsteppers
dubtronica
dubu
ducal
ducally
ducana
ducat
ducatoon
ducatoons
ducats
ducdame
duce
duces
duces tecum
duchess
duchesse (current term)
duchesse d'angouleme
duchessed
duchesses
duchessing
duchesslike
duchessy
duchies
duchy
duci
duck
duck's-bill
duck's-foot
duck's-meat
duck's arse

Literary usage of Duchesse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"duchesse. I suppose nothing is really settled about Harry ... duchesse. That's only eight thousand a year. 1 should n't have thought he 'd be satisfied with ..."

2. How to Catalogue a Library: roman inédit by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Stendhal, Casimir Stryienski (1889)
"Malgré ses quarante-cinq ans, la duchesse de ... la mort d'un beau-père de quatre-vingts ans pour changer son titre de marquise contre celui de duchesse. ..."

3. Early English Prose Romances: With Bibliographical and Historical Introductions by William John Thoms (1858)
"And than the duchesse and her doughter gave laudes and graces to God of the ... How the good Helias wedded the doughter of the duchesse of ..."

4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"I had hoped, Madame la duchesse, to have again had the pleasure of paying my respects to you in Paris, but the wish of our Government that I should take a ..."

5. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"MADAME LA duchesse. ... Lord Kew had travelled in the East with Monsieur le Due and Madame la duchesse ..."

6. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907)
"I had hoped, Madame la duchesse, to have again had the pleasure of paying my respects to you in Paris, but the wish of our Government that I should take a ..."

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