grand duchy

noun

: the territory or dominion of a grand duke or grand duchess

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Tchaikovsky’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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