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Webster 1913 Edition
Archduchy
Archˊduch′y
,Noun.
The territory of an archduke or archduchess.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Archduchy
ARCHDUCH'Y
,Noun.
Definition 2024
archduchy
archduchy
English
Noun
archduchy (plural archduchies)
- The territory (principality) of an archduke
- The archduchies Austria and Brabant (as well as its rival Gelre) claimed this rare, primordial vassalitic rank as the successors to the former Carolingian kingdom and first archduchy Lotharingia (the name later became Lorraine), which had been divided in an Upper - and a Lower dukedom within the Holy Roman Empire
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territory of an archduke
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