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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ducal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
retinue
▪ All made some contribution to the ducal retinue.
▪ As these examples suggest, it becomes increasingly difficult to disentangle royal and ducal retinues.
▪ Even allowing that the list is incomplete, East Anglia seems to have contributed individuals rather than a connection to the ducal retinue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again, the grant consolidated existing ducal interests, rounding out Gloucester's influence in the honour of Pickering further east.
▪ Disparities between areas of customary law could, however, be exploited by the ducal administration in Aquitaine during lawsuits.
▪ Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration.
▪ Echoes of these symbolic assertions of ducal autonomy were also to be heard at later periods.
▪ Fitzwilliam's brothers-in-law also seem to have had ducal connections, although these are more tenuous.
▪ It was erected as a ducal chapel in 1336 by Azzone Visconti who was buried in it just three years later.
▪ These are most visible when ducal retainers stood surety for each other.
▪ Willoughby witnessed a ducal charter in 1480 and was Richard's first sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ducal

Ducal \Du"cal\, a. [F. ducal. See Duke.] Of or pertaining to a duke.

His ducal cap was to be exchanged for a kingly crown.
--Motley.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ducal

late 15c., from Middle French ducal (15c.), from Late Latin ducalis, from Latin dux (genitive ducis); see duke (n.).

Wiktionary
ducal

a. Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.

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ducal

adj. of or belonging to or suitable for a duke; "ducal palace"

Usage examples of "ducal".

Christmas court in Argentan, she had retired to her own ducal city of Poitiers.

Under a magnificently embroidered baldachin blazed the ducal arms: a unicorn on a field gules.

I came across a short flight of stone stairs, which I descended, then another, which I descended also, and found a glass door at the end, on opening which I entered a hall well known to me: we were in the ducal chancery.

I had fixed on the day after the next to escape from my cell at night-time to enter no more, for with a mate I was quite sure that I could make in two or three hours a hole in the roof of the ducal palace, and once on the outside of the roof I would trust to chance for the means of getting to the ground.

Douglas Campbell, the present head of the Ducal House of Argyll, unites in himself many of the most estimable qualities that enabled his ancestors, apart from the mere accident of birth, to achieve greatness.

As I was leaving the ducal palace, I met the Abbe Grimani who told me that the abrupt manner in which I had left his house had displeased everybody.

As we were just opposite the ducal box, I asked him, for the sake of saying something, whether he had engraved the portraits of their highnesses.

I would see him at half-past eleven in the ducal gardens, only requesting him to appoint another hour in case mine was not convenient to him.

CHAPTER XXX The Escape I Nearly Lose My Life on the Roof I Get out of the Ducal Palace, Take a Boat, and Reach the Mainland--Danger to Which I Am Exposed by Father Balbi--My Scheme for Ridding Myself of Him I got out the first, and Father Balbi followed me.

He was medallist and painter both, worked with Gentile da Fabriano in the Ducal Palace at Venice and elsewhere, and his art seems to have an affinity with that of his companion.

Across the valley I could see the lights of the ducal schloss, and I thought of that woman who, legend had it, had thrown herself from this window because she had discovered that she had been tricked into marriage and could not bear to go on living since she had been so deceived.

And amid the saluting of the guards and the flaring of the torches of the running footmen, clad in scarlet, the Transparent carriages drove away to the old Ducal schloss, with its towers and pinacles standing on the schlossberg.

As I did so, the Bishop of Plock put the ducal crown of Mazovia on my head!

Baron Hahrvee Sheeld had ridden into Pahdookahport, his belt pouch bulging with ducal warrants, and ordered the commander of the city guard to bar all gates immediately, no man or woman to enter or exit until he gave leave that they do so.

High Archon Tsychandri-Manyu Tawne of Tawne House himself was present, depicted in stately ducal robes of red and gold.