kaiserin
See also: Kaiserin
English
Noun
kaiserin (plural kaiserins)
- Alternative letter-case form of Kaiserin.
- 1919 May, Peter Clark Macfarlane, “In the Enemy’s Country”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXVI, number 6, New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 132:
- Herr [Friedrich] Ebert said to the first German National Assembly, “We will be an empire of Justice and Truth.” They will have to change the decorations in the schoolroom first—take the kaisers and the kaiserins, the battle-ships and the submarines and the von Hindenburgs off the walls, […]
- 1972, Jerry M. Landay, “Zion Regained”, in Dome of the Rock (Wonders of Man), New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, →ISBN, “A History of Jerusalem” section, page 127, column 2:
- In 1898, Sultan Abdul-Hamid II gave the Dome of the Rock a hurried renovation and erected a great Turkish crescent atop it to mark the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and his kaiserin, Augusta Victoria.
- 1983, William Manchester, “Headwaters, 1874–1895”, in The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, volume [1] (Visions of Glory, 1874–1932), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 169:
- Next came a parade, before the seated spectators, of two thousand firemen and a hundred engines, marching past the kaiser and his kaiserin to the music of a military band.
- 2008, Jane Fletcher Geniesse, “Notes”, in American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem, New York, N.Y.: Nan A. Talese, →ISBN, note 25, page 337:
- The evening after the child presented her gift to the kaiserin—who gave her a diamond pin in the shape of the imperial eagle—her dress caught on fire from a lit candle.
References
- “kaiserin, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “kaiserin, n.”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.