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Definition of Dauphins
1. dauphin [n] - See also: dauphin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dauphins
Literary usage of Dauphins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"realm, and most of the foreign ambassadors, at his house in St. James's square,
for joy of the birth of the dauphins son: the entertainment was very great ..."
2. History of Piedmont by Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga (1855)
"The wars of Savoy with the dauphins of Vienne, or of the Viennois, embrace the
whole period from the rise of both Houses, down to the extinction of the ..."
3. A History of My Time: Memoirs of Chancellor Pasquier by Etienne-Denis Pasquier, Edme Armand Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier (1893)
"... the precursor of false dauphins— A prison registrar who had kept his place at
Saint-Lazare from the days of the Terror—The Emperor's audiences: the ..."
4. Madame de Sévigné: Her Correspondents and Contemporaries by Henriette Consuelo Samsom Puliga (1873)
"Charles de Sevigné a sous- lieutenant of the Gendarmes-dauphins.—Departure of
Madame de Grignan. THE affairs of Madame de Grignan and those of the Baron de ..."
5. Claimants to Royalty by John Henry Ingram (1882)
"... dauphins IN FRANCE. HAD not these pages already proved to what an extent human
credulity could go, it would be almost useless to offer the following ..."
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