princelet

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Noun
  • The former prince is still under investigation, and with police raiding his homes and offices, there’s still a lot that could come out.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Come 1980, Charles and Diana were both single, the prince having recently gone through a breakup.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • La Tour, too, became famous during his lifetime—commissioned by the duke of Lorraine, Cardinal Richelieu, and King Louis XIII—but then was forgotten for centuries.
    Nicole Krauss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Poor Gamay started out with a bad rap because in the 14th century it was thought that wines made from Gamay grapes infected people with serious diseases and in 1395 Philip II duke of Burgundy decreed that all Gamay vines should be destroyed.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Turning to Yasmin, there are so many biographical parallels between her and Ghislaine Maxwell — their dads being publishing barons who had fatal accidents on their boats.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
  • As written, these bills strip away the remaining local input on large projects, leaving nothing in the way of the wealthy, land barons and non-Floridian developers.
    Katherine Sayler, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In the book, Benedict falls for Sophie Beckett, the daughter of an earl who’s been hidden away from the Ton and forced to work as a housemaid by her spiteful stepmother.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
  • With James' support, George became an earl, a marquess and ultimately a duke (a rarity for nonroyals).
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Cox was on trial for two counts of possession of child pornography in the second offense earlier in February.
    Amy DeLaura, The Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2026
  • While LaBeouf initially avoided jail time in that case, 4WWL in Louisiana reports that the New Orleans Police Department has a new arrest warrant for a third count of simple battery related to an additional victim during that same scuffle outside of the R Bar.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The iconic museum attracts many thanks to its various exhibits and extensive art collection of roughly 9,000 objects belonging to Sir William Holbourne, the fifth baronet of Menstrie.
    Kayla Keegan, PEOPLE, 1 Feb. 2026
  • And with Crimson Peak, del Toro swings for the fences, with big gestures from English baronet Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleson) to prove his love for American heiress Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), a big decaying mansion, and big ghost energy.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Only the wealthiest resided in the inner city, made up the raja’s court, and decided the fate of the kingdom’s people—yet never ventured outside the sixty-foot-tall iron gate to mingle or empathize.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Feb. 2025
  • This was the beginning of her lifelong love affair with horses, which led her to work as a groom for an Indian raja, or prince, to excel as a competitive horsewoman and to teach innumerable students the joy of riding.
    Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Feb. 2018
Noun
  • And as my colleague Alison Willmore wrote in her review, Dune: Part Two is really Zendaya’s movie, since Chani’s reactions to Paul’s arc are so much more engrossing than anything the Atreides princeling gets up to.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Some princelings were profoundly disillusioned and decided on another life choice, which was to have fun and make money.
    Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Dec. 2025
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“Princelet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/princelet. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.

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