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Definition of Infanta
1. n. A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest.
Definition of Infanta
1. Noun. The daughter of a king in Spain and Portugal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Infanta
1. a daughter of a Spanish or Portuguese monarch [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infanta
Literary usage of Infanta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel R. Gardiner (1908)
"I hope," he said, " that the devil may not tempt us to send her there to her own
destruction.2 In despair of prevailing with the infanta, Olivares turned ..."
2. History of England, from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles by Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope (1858)
"His son, Don Luis, espoused a daughter of the Regent Duke of Orleans, while his
daughter, the infanta Mary Anne, was betrothed to the young King of France. ..."
3. Annals of the Artists of Spain by Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1891)
"The infanta Maria Margaret, the heroine of the " Meninas,"4 was one of his ...
His last recorded works were full-length pictures of this infanta and her ..."
4. The History of France by EYRE EVANS. CROWE (1863)
"He therefore rallied to the Spanish envoys, and representing to them the election
of either the infanta alone or of the Archduke Ernest as impossible, ..."
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