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archducal

[ ahrch-doo-kuhl, -dyoo- ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to an archduke or an archduchy.


archducal

/ ˈɑːtʃˈdjuːkəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to an archduke, archduchess, or archduchy


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Word History and Origins

Origin of archducal1

First recorded in 1655–65; earlier archiducal, from French; archi-, ducal

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Example Sentences

Your gains, lawful and unlawful, are wrested from you by the archducal counsellors, in whose hands you are mere puppets.

And Fellner had made his home in the quietest quarter of the city, in that quarter which was nearest the Archducal hunting castle.

I can afford to ignore the insults written in Imperial, Royal, and Archducal proclamations.

The opera-dancer was as essential to Archducal existence as the seventy-seventh quartering on the Hapsburg arms.

Various opinions had been expressed of him, but his importance was Archducal, dynastic, purely accidental.

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