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Grand-ducal   Listen
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Grand-ducal  adj.  Of or pertaining to a grand duke.






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"Grand-ducal" Quotes from Famous Books



... counterpart in character and crime. Then there is Ferdinando I., whose most signal achievement was not eating the poisoned pie prepared by the fair hands of Bianca Capello. There are other Ferdinandos, and other Cosmos,—all grand-ducal and pater-patrial, as Medici ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 • Various

... took the sun, a lake or two, and a belt of forest through which—for it hid the palace—sometimes at daybreak a light glinted from the golden avenue. But one night the whole plain broke out far and wide with bonfires, and from the grand-ducal park—over which the sky shone reddest—he caught the sound of a bell ringing. Then he bethought him that the three years were past, and that these illuminations were for the wedding; and he crept to bed, ashamed and sorrowful that he had ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine



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