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dauphine

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dau⋅phine

  [daw-feen; Fr. doh-feen]
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–noun, plural -phines  [-feenz; Fr. -feen] .
the wife of a dauphin.
Also, dauphiness.

Origin:
1860–65; < F; MF dalfine, fem. of dalphin dauphin

Dau⋅phi⋅né

  [doh-fee-ney]
–noun
a historical region and former province of SE France.
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dau·phine   (dô-fēn')   
n.  The wife of a dauphin.

[French, feminine of dauphin; see dauphin.]
Dau·phi·né   (dō-fē-nā')   
A historical region and former province of southeast France bordering on Italy. After 1349 it became an appanage controlled by the eldest son of the king of France.
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