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Princeling

noun
1.
A petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality.
2.
A young prince.






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"Princeling" Quotes from Famous Books



... Liebchen, he looks—is the princeling I have told you of. Roses, of course. Last night it ...
— The Street of Seven Stars • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... was well set!" mused Ned. "The princeling is still here! Well, the battle may not bring victory to me, but I will at least know that I planned it right, acting on the ...
— The Boy Scout Camera Club - The Confession of a Photograph • G. Harvey Ralphson

... he never ruled at all if this was to be end. By his successful usurpation the hereditary principle—always a weak one in Ireland—was broken down. The one chance of a settled central government was thus at an end. Every petty chief and princeling all over the island felt himself capable of emulating the achievements of Brian. It was one of those cases which success and only success justifies. Ireland was pining, as it had always pined, as it continued ever afterwards to pine, for ...
— The Story Of Ireland • Emily Lawless

... daggers. He was considerably past the Ullran prime of life—seventy or eighty, to judge from the worn appearance of his opal teeth, the color of his skin, and the predominantly reddish tint of his quartz-speckles. The retinue of nobles behind Gurgurk ran through the whole spectrum, from a princeling who was almost oyster-gray to the Keegarkan Ambassador, who was even blacker and more ...
— Ullr Uprising • Henry Beam Piper



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