The Collaborative International Dictionary
Margravine \Mar"gra*vine\, n. [G. markgr["a]fin: cf. F. margrafine.] The wife of a margrave.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The wife of a margrave. 2 A woman with the rank and responsibilities of a margrave.
Usage examples of "margravine".
As they ate, they did not speak, but the Margravine watched his face the whole time and once or twice she opened her lips as if to say something, but then seemed to decide against it.
He looked questioningly at the Margravine, but her face was expressionless.
So the Margravine had drugged him, but now, it seemed, it had been a drug to make him sleep, to help him regain his strength.
While the Margravine watched from his poop, Corum and Rhalina were taken to a cabin and made to enter.
It was built by a Margravine in 1725, and remains as she left it at her death.
For instance, the walls of one room were pretty completely covered with small pictures of the Margravine in all conceivable varieties of fanciful costumes, some of them male.
A painting in the dining-hall verged upon the indelicate-- but then the Margravine was herself a trifle indelicate.
It is said that the Margravine would give herself up to debauchery and exceedingly fast living for several months at a time, and then retire to this miserable wooden den and spend a few months in repenting and getting ready for another good time.
The margravine used to bring her meals to this table and DINE WITH THE HOLY FAMILY.
Standing not far from the orchestra, the Margravine Liselle had lifted her head in song.
Only a few years since the widowed margravine, the aunt of the king, married the Count Hoditz.
You will dance a quadrille, in the costume of Francis the First, with the Margravine of Baireuth and the Duchess of Brunswick.
He made the coronation robe of the queen, and the wedding-dress of the Margravine of Baireuth.
The presence of the Margrave and Margravine of Baireuth seemed to impose upon him the duty of honoring his favorite sister, who was his guest more than his wife the queen.
Louise, the wife of the Wild Margrave, and more than once it had welcomed her next neighbor and sister Wilhelmina, the Margravine of Baireuth, whose autobiographic voice, piercingly plaintive and reproachful, seemed to quiver in the air.