dauphine
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A former province in southeastern France called the Dauphiné
- proper noun
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Dauphiné
- This is Port Revel, in Dauphine, near Grenoble, where ship captains and ship pilots from all over the world take a five-and-a-half-day course in ship handling for a room, board, and tuition fee of $15,000.
Examples
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The hostess had announced to a full house at The American University of Paris's Pavillon Dauphine, "Our guest tonight needs no introduction."
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May I present Madame la Dauphine, Marie Antoinette.
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May I present Madame la Dauphine, Marie Antoinette.
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But this did not quell the prophesying, for by this time many other inspirers, mostly children, had emerged in Dauphine and in neighbouring Languedoc to carry on what Vincent had started.
Academic text (2018)
Surface Forms
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Etymology
Dauphine as a place name comes from the old province Dauphiné, which was named after local rulers who used the word dauphin meaning 'dolphin' on their seal. So the land took its name from those rulers and we still call that historical area Dauphiné.
