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Definition of Maharanees
1. maharanee [n] - See also: maharanee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maharanees
Literary usage of Maharanees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Weekly Reporter by David Sutherland, India High Court (Calcutta, India), Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1893)
"Thus, on Bir Chand- 's own showing, both the maharanees Elbe late Rajah Eshan
... The opposition of the maharanees which they carried to the length of ..."
2. Retrospects and Prospects of Indian Policy by Evans Bell (1868)
"It is asserted that " immediately on the Maharajah's decease the maharanees made
known their lord's wishes to Mr. Mansel, the Resident, and that gentleman ..."
3. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"... of broken necklaces — rivers of light poured out upon the table — but whose
real end seemed to be to raise money for angry maharanees or young Rajahs. ..."
4. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"We're going to find elephants with golden howdahs from which peep young maharanees
with necklaces of rubies, and a dawn sea colored like the breast of a ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
"... of broken necklaces — rivers of light poured out upon the table — but whose
true end seemed to be to raise money for angry maharanees or young Rajahs. ..."