Definition of "dauphine" []

• The wife of a dauphin. (noun)

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• "(Too bad there's but a single dauphine potato gracing the entree.)"
• "I.e., "gratin dauphinois" -- as in dauphine? as in dolphin/crown prince?"
• "Before traveling to the colony, when still he had no suspicion that his destiny was going to play a trick on him, or that he would end up in cane fields in the Antilles, he had been invited to Versailles to one of the parties in honor of the new dauphine, a young blonde of fourteen, who yawned openly in the rigid protocol of the French court."