Synonyms:
dauphin
Meaning: formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne
Usage examples
So this fling of the Dauphin's cut deep.
But the Dauphin John was stronger in tongue than in heart.
When the dauphin died he was ten years and two months old.
Swiftly following the loss of her husband, the Dauphin, came the still heavier blow of her father's death.
"Nay, nay, my lord," she said to her husband, the Dauphin; "'t is not a knightly act thus to impeach the honor of a noble guest."
The Dauphin John turned pale with fright, and Count William of Holland, calling out, "Down, Ajax! back, girl, back!" sprang to his feet as if he would have vaulted over the gallery rail.
The dream of future power and greatness as Queen of France, in which the girl wife of the Dauphin had often indulged, was thus rudely dispelled, and Jacqueline returned to her father's court in Holland, no longer crown princess and heiress to a throne, but simply "Lady of Holland."