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annunciade|ənʌnsɪˈeɪd| [a. Fr. annonciade, ad. It. annunziāta, f. annunziar:—L. annuntiāre to announce: see -ade.] A name given to: a. A military order founded by Amadeus VI of Savoy in 1362 under the title ‘Knights of the true lover's knot,’ and re-named, on the accession of Amadeus VIII to the Pontificate in 1439, in honour of the Annunciation of the angel Gabriel; b. A female religious order founded by Queen Jane of France; a nun of that order.
1706tr. Dupin, Eccl. Hist. II. iv. xi. 459 Queen Jane, Daughter of King Lewis XI..instituted the Order of the Annunciation or the Annonciades. 1711Lond. Gaz. mmmmdclxxi/1 The Marquis de Tana, Knight of the Annunciade. 1712Ibid. mmmmmli/1 All the Knights of the Annuntiade..assisted at the Chapel [in Turin]. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v. Annunciate, Knights of the Annunciata, or Annuntiada, was a military order..at first called the order of the true lovers knots, in memory of a bracelet of hair presented to the founder by a lady. |