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princessling en · NOUN

Etymology

From princess + -ling.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) A minor or unimportant princess.
   • “What did you say she was?” Liavrec asked, slightly puzzled. “A princess,’’ said Jacques, enjoying it. “Oh, pas d’histoires,” said Liavrec impatiently. “Mais je t’assure . . . to be quite accurate, a princessling. As you very well know, Pierre, there are a lot of little princes in France.[…]” 1952, Evelyn Jordan, “Marine”, in The Nature of the Beast, Peter Davies, section 3, page 43:
   • Eowyn, Princess of Rohan, has dreamt of nothing but battle, heroism, and glory since she was a little princessling. 2013, Jill Richardson, “The Young and the Restless Eowyn” (chapter 15), in Hobbits, You, and the Spiritual World of Middle-Earth, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas, page 71:
   • The day dawned, and Miss Hermitage woke up like some cradled princessling, sure of being dawdled and prattled to and showed the pretties till bed-time should come round again. 1883, Matilda Betham-Edwards, chapter IV, in "Disarmed!", John W. Lovell Company, page 18:
   • She had been no idle pampered lady, for she had insisted on going with her prince on all his military expeditions, and almost every year she had given him a little princeling or princessling, as sign and symbol of the love that was between them. 1921, Marjorie Latta Barstow Greenbie, “Old Love and Modern Comedy” (chapter XLV), in In the Eyes of the East, Dodd, Mead & Co., page 365:
   • He found arguments that impressed him. Better blood than some ugly German princessling. Better than a political match, with continental complications. Better for Anglo-American relations. Better to marry for love. 1937 April 14, Dennis Geoffrey, “Abdication”, in Coronation Commentary, William Heinemann Ltd, page 266:

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