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Princeling

Princeling \Prince"ling\, n. A petty prince; a young prince.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
princeling

1610s, from prince + -ling.

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princeling

n. 1 A minor or unimportant prince. 2 (context derogatory English) A descendant of some prominent and influential senior communist official in the People's Republic of China.

Usage examples of "princeling".

There is such a planet which owes me a princeling as tribute and hostage.

What will you do on the day when your gorgeous, delicate princeling fails to bow his stiff neck and is discovered?

Tigranes fled a second time, so certain he would be captured that he gave his tiara and diadem to one of his sons to keep, exhorting the princeling to gallop faster because he was younger and lighter.

The burly guards stepped out over the sides of the chariot, and the young princeling stretched and sat up in his bed.

He tossed a glance backward at the formation of cavalry behind them, with the princeling riding stiffly out of earshot.

Not some romanticized princeling in exile who would eventually do some heroic task, but a killer.

The young princeling grinned and, at a stern glance from an attendant elf lord, ducked his head to hide his grin in his frilled collar.

And that for his part, the young Berber princeling worked hard to do the opposite.

Phaolonian princeling, whose cubicle was doubtless secured in a similar manner.

The stalwart princeling had carefully removed every jeweled badge from his trappings and, clad in plain, worn leather, with a basket-hilted rapier of common design, could presumably pass as a wandering mercenary warrior without question, at least under cursory inspection.

The Phaolonian princeling would blame himself for having been the inadvertent cause of any peril that befell me.

Phaolonian princeling was lucky enough to disarm his opponent at the onset, and to drive his point through the sword-arm of the second, while the injured man readily dispatched the third, without great difficulty.

Gesturing to the heavily-laden tray a subordinate set on a low taboret between them, he invited Janchan to help himself, which the princeling did without ceremony, being famished.

Our precious princeling gave such a laugh when he saw it, and clapped his little hands.

I was born to be one, just as the Princeling of Mona was born to his rank.