duchessn.

/ˈdʌtʃɪs/

Forms: Middle English–1500s duches, Middle English–1600s duchesse, (Middle English ducesse, dochesse, duchez, dukes, 1500s dutches, Scottish duiches), 1500s–1800s dutchess, 1500s– duchess.

Etymology: < French duchesse (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) < late or medieval Latin ducissa , < dux (duc- ): see duke n. The spelling dutchess was usual till c1810. See also duchesse n.

1. (a) The wife or widow of a duke. (b) A lady holding in her own right a position equal to that of duke.See also Grand Duchess n., Great Duchess n.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > duke or duchess > [noun] > duchess

duchessc1385

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > other independent rulers > [noun] > ruler of duchy > duchess or wife of duke

duchessc1385

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Ariadne. 2122 Myn dere herte, Of Athenys duchesse [v.rr. ducesse, duches].

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2127 Al softely systyr myn, quod she, Now be we duchessis bothe I and ȝe.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2465 Arþureȝ half-suster, Þe duches doȝter of Tyntagelle.

1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 145 Aftyr the dochesse of York clepyd Isabel.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 792/4 Hec duxissa, a dukes.

1529 Act 21 Hen. VIII c. 13 §28 Any Chaplaine of any Duchesse, Marquesse, Countesse, Vicountesse, or Baronesse.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iii. 38 What thinke you of a Dutchesse? Haue you limbs To beare that load of Title?

1701 Act 12 & 13 Will. III c. 2 §1 Princess Sophia, Electress and Dutchess Dowager of Hannover.

1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 183 It was safe to display the Dutchess of Marlborough under the name of Atossa.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 344 A court of demissions was held in the names of the duke and duchess.

2. transferred.

†a. Lady (as feminine of lord). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > lady

ladyc1225

duchess1393

dame1530

Dona1622

Donna1670

grande dame1775

ladyship1785

señora1818

milady1824

prima donna1834

senhora1841

seigneuress1888

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iii. 33 Ich am hus dere douheter, duchesse of heuene.

c1485 Digby Myst. iii. 515 A dere dewchesse, my daysyys Iee!

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xx. sig. g.vi A duches of vertue, as whylom was Delbora.

figurative.c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 173 Prynce! remembre..Howe vertue is of vices a duchesse.

b. slang. A woman of imposing demeanour or showy appearance. [Compare French duchesse.] Hence, a girl or woman, spec. one's mother or wife (cf. dutch n.²); also as a term of address to a woman.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > ostentatious person > woman

duchess1699

jay-

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun]

mothereOE

dame?c1225

merea1275

childbearera1382

genitricea1500

mammy1523

dama1547

mama1555

genetrix1561

mam1570

mum?1595

old lady1599

authoressc1603

mam1608

genitress1610

old woman1668

old girl1745

mummy1768

momma1810

madre1815

maw1826

ma1829

marm1835

mater1843

mom1846

mommy1846

maternal1867

motherkins1870

muvver1871

mumsy1876

mamacita1887

mutti1905

birth mother1906

duchess1909

amma1913

momsey1914

mums1915

moms1925

mata1945

baby-mother1966

mama1982

old dear1985

baby-mama1986

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > one's wife

peculiar1615

old woman1668

old girl1745

the Mrs1821

old lady1836

old Dutcha1889

duchess1909

ever-loving1939

her indoors1979

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rum-dutchess, a jolly handsom Woman.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 22 This stammer in my address..can never permit me to soar above the reach of..one of the dutchesses of Drury-lane.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 9 Oct. 8/1 The dissemination of those articles of apparel amongst ‘factory ladies’ and the elderly ‘duchesses’ of Chevalierland!

1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xiii. 170 Er sorrer—eh, what? 'Tain't er little duchess, is it?

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 119/2 Duchess, mother—invariable title given between familiar friends when the mother of either is being asked after. ‘How's the Duchess, Bob?’

1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 112 The (or my) old duchess.., ma vieille, ma femme.

1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxviii. 272 ‘Hold your noise, Duchess,’ Jimmy commanded.

1967 L. Forrester Girl called Fathom xii. 147 Start talkin', Duchess. We're gonna toss what you got into the computer..and see what comes out.

a. A size of roofing slate, of 24 by 12 inches.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone of the nature of slate > for roofing > piece of > having definite dimensions

countess1803

lady1803

imperial1813

queen1819

duchess1823

princess1834

size-slate1865

marchioness1878

viscountess1878

bachelor1898

muffity1914

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 396 Countesses are in size the next gradation above ladies; and Duchesses still larger.

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 141 From ‘ladies’ (16 inches by 8) to ‘duchesses’ (24 by 12), the slates are sold per thousand (of 1200 slates).

1883 Birmingh. Weekly Post 1 Sept. 1/4 The disturbed slates rattled down on every side, regardless of the precedence in order of rank to which they were soon introduced as ‘ladies’, ‘countesses’, or ‘duchesses’, according to their merits.

b. A size of writing paper (see quot. 1923).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper of specific size

paper royal1497

paper rial1501

sheet1510

demy1546

imperial1572

pot1579

lily-pot1593

grape1611

cap1620

crown paper1620

post1648

foolscap1660

bastard1711

copy1712

crown1712

Kentish cap1766

vessel of paper1790

antiquarian1815

quartern1819

quatrain1819

Albert note1846

cap-paper1854

sermon paper1855

Albert1859

columbier1875

Albert notepaper1881

cuatro1904

duchess1923

half-imperial-

1923 H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery 24 Duchess, a fashionable small broad size of private note paper, measuring 5³/ ₄ in. or 6 in. by 4³/ ₈ in.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as duchess-gentlewoman, duchess-regent; duchess-like adj.

ΚΠ

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 52 Her beauty is duchess-like.

1826 W. E. Andrews Exam. Fox's Cal. Protestant Saints 47 The cause for which the priest-knight and the duchess-gentlewoman suffered was one and the same.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 178 An honourable embassy was sent to the Duchess-Regent in Normandy.

Derivatives

ˈduchessship n. the rank or personality of a duchess.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > duke or duchess > [noun] > duchess > rank of duchess

duchessship1607

Graceship1612

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > other independent rulers > [noun] > ruler of duchy > duchess or wife of duke > personality of

duchessship1607

1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois ii. 20 I would haue put that proiect face of his To a more test, than did her Dutchesship.

1819 Monthly Mag. 48 415 His Princeship and her Princessship; his Dukeship and her Duchess~ship, may also find a place in his crabbed vocabulary, if he prefer it.

ˈduchessy adj. colloquial like or of the nature of a duchess; abounding in duchesses.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective]

rankOE

peacockly?a1425

ruffling1531

garish1545

peacockish1551

peacock-like1576

ostentatious1590

fastuous?1591

flaring1593

flantitanting1596

ostentive1599

ostentative1601

showful1607

flourishable1614

flourishing1616

flaunting1624

ostentous1624

ostentatory1638

swasha1640

fanfaron1670

paradeful1748

ostensible1782

epideictic1790

fandangous1797

flashy1801

affiché1818

show-off1818

splashing1820

flaunty1825

splash-and-dash1830

pretentious1832

flash1836

splashy1836

pretenceful1841

swanky1842

peacocky1844

fantysheeny1847

splurgy1852

cheesy1858

pretensivea1868

duchessy1870

swagger1879

lavish1882

splurging1884

show-offy1890

razzmatazz1900

show-offish1903

whoop-de-do1904

Ritz1908

split-arse1917

swanking1918

ritzy1919

fantoosh1920

knock-me-down1922

showboating1936

showboat1939

hellzapoppin'1945

zazzy1961

glitzy1966

sploshy1966

zhuzhy1968

noncy1989

bling1999

1870 Contemp. Rev. 14 486 ‘Lothair’ has been called a ‘duchessy’ book.

1887 G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 49 A handsome nose that made her look duchessy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	duchess
释义	duchessn. /ˈdʌtʃɪs/ Forms: Middle English–1500s duches, Middle English–1600s duchesse, (Middle English ducesse, dochesse, duchez, dukes, 1500s dutches, Scottish duiches), 1500s–1800s dutchess, 1500s– duchess. Etymology: < French duchesse (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) < late or medieval Latin ducissa , < dux (duc- ): see duke n. The spelling dutchess was usual till c1810. See also duchesse n. 1. (a) The wife or widow of a duke. (b) A lady holding in her own right a position equal to that of duke.See also Grand Duchess n., Great Duchess n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > duke or duchess > [noun] > duchess duchessc1385 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > other independent rulers > [noun] > ruler of duchy > duchess or wife of duke duchessc1385 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Ariadne. 2122 Myn dere herte, Of Athenys duchesse [v.rr. ducesse, duches]. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2127 Al softely systyr myn, quod she, Now be we duchessis bothe I and ȝe. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2465 Arþureȝ half-suster, Þe duches doȝter of Tyntagelle. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 145 Aftyr the dochesse of York clepyd Isabel. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 792/4 Hec duxissa, a dukes. 1529 Act 21 Hen. VIII c. 13 §28 Any Chaplaine of any Duchesse, Marquesse, Countesse, Vicountesse, or Baronesse. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iii. 38 What thinke you of a Dutchesse? Haue you limbs To beare that load of Title? View more context for this quotation 1701 Act 12 & 13 Will. III c. 2 §1 Princess Sophia, Electress and Dutchess Dowager of Hannover. 1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 183 It was safe to display the Dutchess of Marlborough under the name of Atossa. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 344 A court of demissions was held in the names of the duke and duchess. 2. transferred. †a. Lady (as feminine of lord). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > lady ladyc1225 duchess1393 dame1530 Dona1622 Donna1670 grande dame1775 ladyship1785 señora1818 milady1824 prima donna1834 senhora1841 seigneuress1888 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iii. 33 Ich am hus dere douheter, duchesse of heuene. c1485 Digby Myst. iii. 515 A dere dewchesse, my daysyys Iee! a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xx. sig. g.vi A duches of vertue, as whylom was Delbora. figurative.c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 173 Prynce! remembre..Howe vertue is of vices a duchesse. b. slang. A woman of imposing demeanour or showy appearance. [Compare French duchesse.] Hence, a girl or woman, spec. one's mother or wife (cf. dutch n.²); also as a term of address to a woman. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > ostentatious person > woman duchess1699 jay- society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > [noun] mothereOE dame?c1225 merea1275 childbearera1382 genitricea1500 mammy1523 dama1547 mama1555 genetrix1561 mam1570 mum?1595 old lady1599 authoressc1603 mam1608 genitress1610 old woman1668 old girl1745 mummy1768 momma1810 madre1815 maw1826 ma1829 marm1835 mater1843 mom1846 mommy1846 maternal1867 motherkins1870 muvver1871 mumsy1876 mamacita1887 mutti1905 birth mother1906 duchess1909 amma1913 momsey1914 mums1915 moms1925 mata1945 baby-mother1966 mama1982 old dear1985 baby-mama1986 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > one's wife peculiar1615 old woman1668 old girl1745 the Mrs1821 old lady1836 old Dutcha1889 duchess1909 ever-loving1939 her indoors1979 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rum-dutchess, a jolly handsom Woman. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 22 This stammer in my address..can never permit me to soar above the reach of..one of the dutchesses of Drury-lane. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 9 Oct. 8/1 The dissemination of those articles of apparel amongst ‘factory ladies’ and the elderly ‘duchesses’ of Chevalierland! 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xiii. 170 Er sorrer—eh, what? 'Tain't er little duchess, is it? 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 119/2 Duchess, mother—invariable title given between familiar friends when the mother of either is being asked after. ‘How's the Duchess, Bob?’ 1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 112 The (or my) old duchess.., ma vieille, ma femme. 1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxviii. 272 ‘Hold your noise, Duchess,’ Jimmy commanded. 1967 L. Forrester Girl called Fathom xii. 147 Start talkin', Duchess. We're gonna toss what you got into the computer..and see what comes out. 3. a. A size of roofing slate, of 24 by 12 inches. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone of the nature of slate > for roofing > piece of > having definite dimensions countess1803 lady1803 imperial1813 queen1819 duchess1823 princess1834 size-slate1865 marchioness1878 viscountess1878 bachelor1898 muffity1914 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 396 Countesses are in size the next gradation above ladies; and Duchesses still larger. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 141 From ‘ladies’ (16 inches by 8) to ‘duchesses’ (24 by 12), the slates are sold per thousand (of 1200 slates). 1883 Birmingh. Weekly Post 1 Sept. 1/4 The disturbed slates rattled down on every side, regardless of the precedence in order of rank to which they were soon introduced as ‘ladies’, ‘countesses’, or ‘duchesses’, according to their merits. b. A size of writing paper (see quot. 1923). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper of specific size paper royal1497 paper rial1501 sheet1510 demy1546 imperial1572 pot1579 lily-pot1593 grape1611 cap1620 crown paper1620 post1648 foolscap1660 bastard1711 copy1712 crown1712 Kentish cap1766 vessel of paper1790 antiquarian1815 quartern1819 quatrain1819 Albert note1846 cap-paper1854 sermon paper1855 Albert1859 columbier1875 Albert notepaper1881 cuatro1904 duchess1923 half-imperial- 1923 H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery 24 Duchess, a fashionable small broad size of private note paper, measuring 5³/ ₄ in. or 6 in. by 4³/ ₈ in. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as duchess-gentlewoman, duchess-regent; duchess-like adj. ΚΠ 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 52 Her beauty is duchess-like. 1826 W. E. Andrews Exam. Fox's Cal. Protestant Saints 47 The cause for which the priest-knight and the duchess-gentlewoman suffered was one and the same. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 178 An honourable embassy was sent to the Duchess-Regent in Normandy. Derivatives ˈduchessship n. the rank or personality of a duchess. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > duke or duchess > [noun] > duchess > rank of duchess duchessship1607 Graceship1612 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > other independent rulers > [noun] > ruler of duchy > duchess or wife of duke > personality of duchessship1607 1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois ii. 20 I would haue put that proiect face of his To a more test, than did her Dutchesship. 1819 Monthly Mag. 48 415 His Princeship and her Princessship; his Dukeship and her Duchess~ship, may also find a place in his crabbed vocabulary, if he prefer it. ˈduchessy adj. colloquial like or of the nature of a duchess; abounding in duchesses. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective] rankOE peacockly?a1425 ruffling1531 garish1545 peacockish1551 peacock-like1576 ostentatious1590 fastuous?1591 flaring1593 flantitanting1596 ostentive1599 ostentative1601 showful1607 flourishable1614 flourishing1616 flaunting1624 ostentous1624 ostentatory1638 swasha1640 fanfaron1670 paradeful1748 ostensible1782 epideictic1790 fandangous1797 flashy1801 affiché1818 show-off1818 splashing1820 flaunty1825 splash-and-dash1830 pretentious1832 flash1836 splashy1836 pretenceful1841 swanky1842 peacocky1844 fantysheeny1847 splurgy1852 cheesy1858 pretensivea1868 duchessy1870 swagger1879 lavish1882 splurging1884 show-offy1890 razzmatazz1900 show-offish1903 whoop-de-do1904 Ritz1908 split-arse1917 swanking1918 ritzy1919 fantoosh1920 knock-me-down1922 showboating1936 showboat1939 hellzapoppin'1945 zazzy1961 glitzy1966 sploshy1966 zhuzhy1968 noncy1989 bling1999 1870 Contemp. Rev. 14 486 ‘Lothair’ has been called a ‘duchessy’ book. 1887 G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 49 A handsome nose that made her look duchessy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1385
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