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 Translation for 'duchess' from English to Russian
NOUN   a duchess | duchesses
герцогиня {ж}duchess
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Translation for 'duchess' from English to Russian

duchess
герцогиня {ж}
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Usage Examples English
  • "Dona" Diana Álvares Pereira de Melo, 11th Duchess of Cadaval (born 25 July 1978), more commonly known as Diana de Cadaval, is a Portuguese author and noblewoman.
  • Upon the death of the duchess in 1897, the guild's royal patronage continued under her daughter, The Duchess of York (later Queen Mary), who had worked for the guild from her youth.
  • The Duke of Marlborough died at Windsor in 1722, and the Duchess arranged a large funeral for him.
  • Rowell suggests that a marriage to a pagan duchess rather than to an Orthodox duchess from Slavic lands helped to win pagan Lithuanian support after Kęstutis and his brother Algirdas deposed Jaunutis in 1345.
  • Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess in Saxony (24 September 1731 – 2 August 1810) was a German duchess.

  • At court, several courtiers wrote about the duchess's death.
  • When Cervantes sees the satire and introduction, he approaches the duchess directly to offer to work with her on future writings if she will explain the reason for the violence of the introduction (which Cervantes believes was also written by the duchess).
  • The abdicated King Edward VIII and his wife, the Duchess of Windsor, had planned for a burial in a purchased plot in Rose Circle at Green Mount Cemetery, near where the father of the Duchess was interred.
  • Imberg (8th-century – d. before 744) was a Duchess consort of Asti by marriage to Theodon, and duchess regent of Asti after the death of her son.
  • Mary Caroline Blair or Mary Caroline, Duchess of Sutherland born Mary Caroline Michell (1848 – 27 May 1912) was a British scandalous duchess who broke convention and went to jail for interfering in her husband's will.

  • Sir Joshua Reynolds painted the duchess, along with her son George, Viscount Mandeville, in about 1766.
  • Similarly, in "The Duchess (of Malfi)", her adaptation of John Webster’s "The Duchess of Malfi", the duchess is given the final word as Webster’s text is rewoven to examine the control and violence of men towards women.
  • Ingeborg, Duchess of Öland ([...]; 1297–1357) was a Norwegian princess and a Swedish duchess.
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