: the territory or dominion of a grand duke or grand duchess
Examples of grand duchy in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebTchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto was written in the glory days of Imperial Russia — an empire that included Finland as a grand duchy subjected, by the time Sibelius’s Second Symphony premiered in 1902, to severe policies of Russification.—Joshua Barone, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2023 Europe has 12 remaining monarchies, including three principalities and a grand duchy.—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2022
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