duchesse

See also: duchêsse

English

Etymology 1

From French duchesse. Doublet of duchess.

Noun

duchesse (countable and uncountable, plural duchesses)

  1. (countable) A French duchess.
    Coordinate term: duc
    • 1877 December 15, Emily Crawford, “M. Thiers: A Sketch from Life”, in Littell’s Living Age, volume CXXXV / fifth series, volume XX, number 1748, Boston, Mass.: Littell and Gay, page 679, column 2:
      Ary Scheffer, the drawing-master of the young Orleans princesses, offered to go with Thiers and procure him an audience of the duc or duchesse, or Madame Adélaïde.
    • 1888, Augustus J[ohn] C[uthbert] Hare, Days Near Paris, New York, N.Y., London, Glagsow: George Routledge and Sons, page 257:
      “1st September, 1680. We heard at our abbey [of Livry] the triumphs, the trumpetings and the music of Chelles at the consecration of the abbess. It is said that the fair beauty thought she was poisoned, and that gave her a right to have guards; she is still languishing, but so full of her grandeur that you must imagine something precisely contrary to that little violet [La Vallière], who hid herself in the grass, and was ashamed of being a mistress, a mother, and a duchesse; that will never be the model.”—Mme de Sévigné.
    • 1990, Ronald Hayman, “For Le Figaro”, in Proust: A Biography, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III (1896–1905 Breakfast at Night), page 179:
      Among the guests are Léon Bourgeois, president of the Chamber of Deputies, the Italian, German and Russian ambassadors, comtesse Greffulhe, the grande-duchesse Vladimir with comtesse Adhéaume de Chevigné, several comtes, comtesses, ducs and duchesses, Anatole France, Gaston Calmette, the baronne Gustave de Rothschild and Reynaldo Hahn, who sings at the piano when the initial hubbub has died down.
    • 2022, Belinda Scerri, “‘Instructing herself by fad or fancy’: Depictions and Fictions of Connoisseuses and Femmes Savantes in Eighteenth-Century Paris”, in Beatrijs Vanacker, Lieke van Deinsen, editors, Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe, Leuven: Leuven University Press, →ISBN, part II (Types and Models of Female Intellectual Authority), page 187:
      She was the eighth child of the duc and duchesse of Enghien and, as a member of the reigning Bourbon house, was styled a princesse du sang, or princess of the blood.
  2. (uncountable) Ellipsis of duchesse lace.

Noun

duchesse (plural duchesses)

  1. Obsolete spelling of duchess
    • 1601, Thomas Danett, transl., The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton, London: […] Ar. Hatfield, for I. Norton, page 147:
      For the ſaid Lord of Chaumont, went himſelfe peaceably through the countrie with a good band of men to Rouure, from whence he led the Ducheſſe of Sauoy and all hir traine to the next place of the Kings dominions. Before the diſpatch of the Ducheſſes laſt meſſenger, the King was departed from Lions […]
    • 1611, Ed[ward] Grimeston, A Generall Historie of France, Written by Iohn de Serres vnto the Yeare .1598. Much Augmented and Continued vnto This Present, out of the Most Approoued Authors That Haue Written of that Subiect., […] George Eld, page 1220:
      The Lord of Ragny carryed her in the place of Diana Ducheſſe of Angouleſme, who repreſented the Infanta Iſabella Clara Eugenia, Archducheſſe of Auſtria, being followed by the daughters of Rohan, Montmorencie, and Mayenne, who were Virgins, and the Ducheſſes of Rohan, Suilly, and others.
    • 1620, The Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant, Don Quixote of the Mançha, London: […] Edward Blount, translation of original by Michael Ceruantes, pages 380–381:
      The people departed, and the Duke and Ducheſſe returned, and Don Quixote with them to the Caſtle, Toſilos was ſhut vp, Donna Rodriguez and her daughter were moſt happy, to ſee that one way or other, that buſineſſe ſhould end in marriage, and Toſilos hoped no leſſe. CHAP. LVII. How Don Quixote tooke his leaue of the Duke, and what befell him with the witty wanton Altiſidora, the Ducheſſes Damozell.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French duchesse. By surface analysis, duc (“duke”) +‎ -esse (“-ess”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dy.ʃɛs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛs
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Noun

duchesse f (plural duchesses, masculine duc)

  1. duchess

Descendants
  • → English: duchesse
  • → Persian: دوشس‎ (dušes)
  • → Turkish: düşes

Further reading

Italian

Noun

duchesse f

  1. plural of duchessa

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French duchesse.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdutʃɛs(ə)/

Noun

duchesse (plural duchesses)

  1. duchess (female ruler)
  2. duchess (wife of a duke)
  3. female noble, lady

Descendants

References

Old French

Noun

duchesse oblique singular, f (oblique plural duchesses, nominative singular duchesse, nominative plural duchesses)

  1. duchess

Descendants
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