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infanta
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Definition:A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Blackadder: Well, boys, did you hear that? I am to marry the infanta of Spain.
BBC. Blackadder, season 1: The Queen of Spain's Beard
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I came to the conclusion that your Cambremer woman must be the Infanta Dorothea who had said she was coming to see me one day, and is rather bovine also, so that I was just on the point of saying: ‘Your Royal Highness’ and using the third person to a herd of cattle.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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