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dauphine

 
Dictionary: dau·phine
(dô-fēn') pronunciation
n.
The wife of a dauphin.

[French, feminine of dauphin. See dauphin.]


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[doh-FEEN] 1. Pommes dauphine (dauphine potatoes) are croquettes made by combining potato purée with choux pastry (cream-puff pastry dough) and forming the mixture into balls, which are then rolled in breadcrumbs and deep-fried. 2. Sole dauphine is an elaborate preparation of deep-fried sole fillets garnished with mushrooms, crayfish, truffles and quenelles.

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Dauphine is the female form of the particular French feudal (comital or princely) title of Dauphin (also anglicized as Dolphin), applied to the wife of a Dauphin (usually in the sense of heir to the French royal throne). It is roughly analogous to the British title Duchess of Cornwall or Princess of Wales.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kongen af Frankrig`s hustru

Nederlands (Dutch)
dauphine (gemalin van Franse kroonprins)

Français (French)
n. - princesse héritière, (Hist) Dauphine

Deutsch (German)
n. - Dauphine (Gemahlin des franz. Kronprinzen)

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - δελφίνος (πρωτότοκος γιος του βασιλιά της Γαλλίας)

Italiano (Italian)
delfina

Português (Portuguese)
n. - delfina (f)

Русский (Russian)
дофина

Español (Spanish)
n. - delfina, heredera del trono, esposa del delfín

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - dauphine (hustru till en dauphin)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
法国王妃

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 法國王妃

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 프랑스 왕세자비

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 王太子妃

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) زوجه الإبن البكر لملك فرنسا‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אשת יורש-עצר, יורשת-עצר‬


 
 
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