duchesse

duchesse

1. Ellipsis of duchesse lace.

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.

From Old French duchesse; equivalent to duc (“duke”) +‎ -esse (“-ess”).

• IPA^(key): /dy.ʃɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛs

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duchesse f (plural duchesses, masculine duc)

1. duchess

• duc

• → Persian: دوشس‎ (dušes)
• → Turkish: düşes

• “duchesse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

duchesse f

1. plural of duchessa

• duches, duchez, duchasse, douches, dewchesse, dochesse, dwchesse, dukes

From Old French duchesse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdutʃɛs(ə)/

duchesse (plural duchesses)

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

• duk

• English: duchess
• Scots: duches

• “duches(se, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

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

1. duchess

• → Middle English: duchesse
  • English: duchess
• French: duchesse