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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dauphin \Dau"phin\, n. [F. dauphin, prop., a dolphin, from L. delphinus. See Dolphin. The name was given, for some reason unexplained, to Guigo, count of Vienne, in the 12th century, and was borne by succeeding counts of Vienne. In 1349, Dauphiny was bequeathed to Philippe de Valois, king of France, on condition that the heir of the crown should always hold the title of Dauphin de Viennois.] The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"eldest son of the king of France" (title in use from 1349-1830), early 15c., from Middle French dauphin, literally "dolphin" (see dolphin).\n
\nOriginally the title attached to "the Dauphin of Viennois," whose province (in the French Alps north of Provence) came to be known as Dauphiné. Three dolphins were on the coat of arms of the lords of Viennois, first worn by Guido IV (d.1142). It is said originally to have been a personal name among the lords of Viennois. Humbert III, the last lord of Dauphiné, ceded the province to Philip of Valois in 1349, on condition that the title be perpetuated by the eldest son of the king of France. The French fem. form is dauphine.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The eldest son of the king of France. Under the (w House of Valois Valois) and (w House of Bourbon Bourbon) dynasties, the Dauphin of France, generally shortened to Dauphin, was heir apparent to the throne of France. The title derived from the main title of the Dauphin, Dauphin of Viennois. 2 (sense: allegorical) An eldest son.
WordNet
n. formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 337
Land area (2000): 0.442255 sq. miles (1.145436 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.004607 sq. miles (0.011931 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.446862 sq. miles (1.157367 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18272
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.366687 N, 76.931168 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 17018
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Dauphin
Housing Units (2000): 111133
Land area (2000): 525.289370 sq. miles (1360.493165 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 32.243331 sq. miles (83.509841 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 557.532701 sq. miles (1444.003006 sq. km)
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.324487 N, 76.804656 W
Headwords:
Dauphin, PA
Dauphin County
Dauphin County, PA
Wikipedia
For the former federal electoral district, see Dauphin
Dauphin is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was originally created in 1881 with the expansion of the province's western boundary, eliminated in 1886, re-established in 1892, and finally abolished in 1999. Most of its territory went to the new riding of Dauphin-Roblin, though a small amount went to the riding of Swan River.
Dauphin was initially centred on the community of Dauphin, Manitoba, though it now encompasses much rural territory as well. It is located in the province's mid-northern region, close to the provincial border with Saskatchewan.
It was redrawn in the 2016 election after the latest boundary redistribution that will expand to include Ste. Rose du Lac.
Dauphin (, plural dauphins) may refer to:
The Dauphin is a French sounding rocket, of which six versions were constructed between 1967 and 1978. It represents a modification of the starting stage of the Dragon with a larger payload nosecone.
The Dauphin has a diameter of 56 centimetres, a launch weight of 1.132 metric tons, a length of 6.21 metres, a takeoff thrust of 90 kN and a ceiling of 150 kilometres. It belonged to a family of solid-propellant rockets including the Belier, the Centaure, and the Dragon, along with the Eridan.
Usage examples of "dauphin".
After a few moments the seeker saw the shape forming up ahead, the boxy bridge, the pointed bow, the tall central mast and the funnel aft, with the box of the hangar for the Dauphin helicopter and the flat helo-deck aft.
The dauphin and dauphiness were deeply shocked by a disaster so painfully at variance with their own happiness, which, in one sense, had caused it.
She owned that, if both the king and the dauphin approved of it, she had nothing more to say, though she still blamed the dauphiness for forgetting a promise which she understood to have been made to herself.
The ice being, thus, as it were, once broken, the dauphin and dauphiness took many opportunities of appearing in public during the following months, visiting the great Paris fair of St.
In a few days after, he espoused the Princess Catharine: he carried his father-in-law to Paris, and put himself in possession of that capital: he obtained from the parliament and the three estates a ratification of the treaty of Troye: he supported the duke of Burgundy in procuring a sentence against the murderers of his father: and he immediately turned his arms with success against the adherents of the dauphin, who, as soon as he heard of the treaty of Troye, took on him the style and authority of regent, and appealed to God and his sword for the maintenance of his title.
God, thou shalt lead the Dauphin to Reims that he may there receive worthily his anointing.
Dauphin, do not so long and so frequently deliberate in council, but come straightway to Reims, there to receive your rightful anointing.
Saint-Denys in France, the son is but the dauphin and will not enter into his inheritance till the day when the oil of the inexhaustible ampulla shall flow over his forehead.
Bienville, the brother, also deserves remembrance both in France and America--dismissed once but exonerated, returning later to succeed the pessimistic Cadillac and to lay the foundations of New Orleans on the only dry spot he had found on his first journey up the river, there to plant the seed of the fruits and melons and pumpkins of the garden on Dauphin Island, that were to bring forth millionfold, though they have not yet entirely crowded out the cypress and the palmetto, and the fleur-de-lis that still grows wild and flowers brilliantly at certain seasons.
Brought up by the Duc de Montausier, a sort of monkish soldier, and by Bossuet, a sort of military monk, Monsieur le Dauphin had no good examples from which to profit.
Dauphin had attempted to deceive Jeanne as to his identity, by hiding among the incredulous and hostile court until recognized at once by her, the Seigneur de Rais had made himself her friend and champion.
They loved her because she was their charming Reinette, and her marriage to the Dauphin gave them such a show as they had never witnessed before.
Dauphin and similar charts wherein the Australian coasts are so remarkably well delineated, we have now to mention in connection with the present globe some of its most curious and extraordinary features--features which will show that the Dauphin and similar charts were not entirely due to Portuguese and Spanish surveys.
The armorial bearings of England should be displayed whenever the Dauphin and Dauphine appeared in public.
The island of Timor is larger than in the Dauphin chart, and the island of Flores is placed latitudinally, as it ought to be, whereas in the Dauphin chart it is placed longitudinally.