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DUCAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ducal mean? 

DUCAL (adjective)
  The adjective DUCAL has 1 sense:

1. of or belonging to or suitable for a dukeplay

  Familiarity information: DUCAL used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DUCAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or belonging to or suitable for a duke

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

ducal palace

Pertainym:

duke (a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank)

Derivation:

duke (a British peer of the highest rank)

duke (a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank)


 Context examples 


The proud lord of Holdernesse was not accustomed to be so rated in his own ducal hall.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was evident that to his intensely aristocratic nature this discussion of his intimate family affairs with a stranger was most abhorrent, and that he feared lest every fresh question would throw a fiercer light into the discreetly shadowed corners of his ducal history.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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