Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A daughter of a Spanish or Portuguese king.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Spanish or Portuguese princess of the royal blood. See
infante .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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This is also where you'll find the Saint Jean Baptiste Church where young Louix XIV married the Spanish infanta, Maria-Theresa of Hapsburg.
Karen Schaler: 20 Fabulous French Finds in Bordeaux and Basque Country Karen Schaler 2010
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This is also where you'll find the Saint Jean Baptiste Church where young Louix XIV married the Spanish infanta, Maria-Theresa of Hapsburg.
Karen Schaler: 20 Fabulous French Finds in Bordeaux and Basque Country Karen Schaler 2010
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This is also where you'll find the Saint Jean Baptiste Church where young Louix XIV married the Spanish infanta, Maria-Theresa of Hapsburg.
Karen Schaler: 20 Fabulous French Finds in Bordeaux and Basque Country Karen Schaler 2010
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This is also where you'll find the Saint Jean Baptiste Church where young Louix XIV married the Spanish infanta, Maria-Theresa of Hapsburg.
Karen Schaler: 20 Fabulous French Finds in Bordeaux and Basque Country Karen Schaler 2010
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This is also where you'll find the Saint Jean Baptiste Church where young Louix XIV married the Spanish infanta, Maria-Theresa of Hapsburg.
Karen Schaler: 20 Fabulous French Finds in Bordeaux and Basque Country Karen Schaler 2010
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This is also where you'll find the Saint Jean Baptiste Church where young Louix XIV married the Spanish infanta, Maria-Theresa of Hapsburg.
Karen Schaler: 20 Fabulous French Finds in Bordeaux and Basque Country Karen Schaler 2010
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Easier to snare the Hapsburg fox with a morsel like Marguerite than negotiate endlessly over the price of the infanta.
Archive 2009-04-01 Julianne Douglas 2009
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Marrying Marguerite would provide him the perfect pretext for releasing the infanta from this pledge.
A Friday Snippet Julianne Douglas 2009
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Marrying Marguerite would provide him the perfect pretext for releasing the infanta from this pledge.
Archive 2009-04-01 Julianne Douglas 2009
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Easier to snare the Hapsburg fox with a morsel like Marguerite than negotiate endlessly over the price of the infanta.
A Friday Snippet Julianne Douglas 2009
johnmperry commented on the word infanta
There is a district of London called "Elephant & Castle", centred on a pub of that name. It is said that this is in fact a corruption of "Infanta de Castile",
July 25, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word infanta
In this case the folk etymology is itself probably a folk etymology. The Elephant and Castle district once housed a smithy belonging to the Cutlers' Company; cutlers used ivory for their knife handles; to indicate this the smithy used a sign of an elephant, which in heraldry is depicted with a castle on its back (an alteration of the howdah); a pub later appeared on the spot and used the elephant and castle sign too; and from this the district was named. There was never an Infanta of Castile in British history, and that story about one is presumably a fanciful invention like those about Port Over Starboard Home or Sir Loin—what the linguist Larry Horn has called etymythology.
July 25, 2008
johnmperry commented on the word infanta
I had a little nut tree,
Nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg,
And a golden pear;
The King of Spain's daughter
Came to visit me,
And all for the sake
Of my little nut tree.
Her dress was made of crimson,
Jet black was her hair,
She asked me for my nut tree
And my golden pear.
I said, "So fair a princess
Never did I see,
I'll give you all the fruit
From my little nut tree.
Children's Nursery Rhyme
(sounds a bit phallic to me)
July 25, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word infanta
Hmm... is there an open italics someplace here? (just askin'.)
July 25, 2008
ekbergmann commented on the word infanta
"The Infanta" by the Decemberists off of their album Picaresque.
March 31, 2010