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infanta

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the Spanish and former Portuguese monarchies, Infanta is the title given to a daughter of the reigning monarch who is not the heir-apparent to the throne. Infanta may also refer to: Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain , a fictional infanta played by Miriam ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The daughter of a king in Spain and Portugal. (from 17th c.)

Usage examples of infanta.

It is certain that when at Madrid he had aspired to win the good graces of a Spanish Infanta, and on that subject reports were circulated with which I have nothing to do, because I never had any opportunity of ascertaining their truth.

The Infanta reddened with disapproval, and persuaded herself, by way of consolation, that Fontanges had lost her senses or was on the road to madness.

The infanta ordered the maidens to go, and they were very surprised to see the infanta speaking so docilely to Tirant.

In the back of the room he saw one hundred seventy women and maidens, all with the empress and the infanta Carmesina.

On those first celluloid Christmases I look as overdressed as the Infanta.

Leaving her thus half-crippled, temporarily, at least, and keeping to his course, he had bewildered the crew of the Infanta by a couple of shots from the chasers on his beak-head, then crashed alongside to grapple and board her, whilst Hagthorpe was doing the like by the San Felipe.

At last, however, after a prolonged combat, during which several of the hobby-horses were gored through and through, and their riders dismounted, the young Count of Tierra-Nueva brought the bull to his knees, and having obtained permission from the Infanta to give the coup de grace, he plunged his wooden sword into the neck of the animal with such violence that the head came right off and disclosed the laughing face of little Monsieur de Lorraine, the son of the French Ambassador at Madrid.