grand-duc

See also: grand duc

English

Alternative forms

• grand duc

Etymology

From French grand-duc. Doublet of grand duke.

Noun

grand-duc (plural grands-ducs)

1. A French grand duke.

   Coordinate term: grande-duchesse

   • 1921, Town & Country, volumes 77–78, page 54:

     The Grand-duc and Grande-duchesse Cyril, with their children, are expected at the Elysée Palace, Cannes, for the winter.

   • 2001, Carter Wiseman, I.M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture, New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →ISBN, page 312:

     To one side was a small pavilion that would, the backers hoped, eventually house the private art collection of the grand-duc and his wife.

   • 2009 February 19, Christopher Petkanas, “Chichi Devil”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 July 2019:

     [Louise Lévêque de] Vilmorin covered the Kelly-Grimaldi nuptials in Monaco in 1956, skewering the American guests, whom she stops just short of calling hayseeds, for “thinking they’d been transported to the era of grands-ducs and grands bancos.”

   • 2018, Caroline Weber, Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, published 2019, →ISBN, page 196:

     The most important introduction Gontaut made for her was to Grand-Duc and Grande-Duchesse Wladimir of Russia, the GDWs to their intimates.

   • 2023, [François Bonal], quotee, “The pleasure of Cabarets, Dance-halls and Ballrooms”, in The Virtual Wine Museum‎^[2], archived from the original on 2 June 2023:

     Eliane^[sic] de Pougy, Cléo de Mérode, Caroline Otéro and Emilie d'Alençon quaffed champagne offered to them by the grands-ducs in the bar of the Folies-Bergère, hotspot of venal love.

     [original: Liane de Pougy, Emilienne d’Alençon, Cléo de Mérode, Caroline Otéro sablaient le champagne que leur offraient les aristocrates en renom, les grands-ducs, au bar des Folies-Bergère, haut-lieu de l’amour vénal.]

Related terms

• duc

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃.dyk/

Noun

grand-duc m (plural grands-ducs, feminine grande-duchesse)

1. grand duke

   faire la tournée des grands-ducs ― to paint the town red

2. Eurasian eagle-owl

   grand-duc d'Amérique ― great horned owl

   grand-duc d'Europe ― Eurasian eagle owl

   hibou grand-duc ― Eurasian eagle owl

Descendants

• → Arabic: غْرَانْدُوق (ḡrāndūq)
• → English: grand-duc
• → Persian: گراندوک (gerânduk)
• → Turkish: grandük

Further reading

• “grand-duc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012