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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

princesse

. See

, and cf.

A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince.

Dryden.

So excellent a

princess

as the present queen.

Swift.

The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family.

Shak.

The consort of a prince;

as, the

princess

of Wales

Princess royal

the eldest daughter of a sovereign.

Noun.

A female sovereign, as an empress or queen.

A sovereign lady of rank next to that of a queen.

The daughter of a king.

The consort of a prince; as the princess of Wales.