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Kaiserin
Definitions
- 1 The wife of a Kaiser. historical
"We should have expected the Kaiser to curse them and the weather, not to weep. Weeping? Kaisers and Kaiserins and Count Zeppelins should be made of sterner stuff."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Kaiserin. alt-of
"Herr [Friedrich] Ebert said to the first German National Assembly, “We will be an empire of Justice and Truth.” They will have to change the decorations in the schoolroom first—take the kaisers and the kaiserins, the battle-ships and the submarines and the von Hindenburgs off the walls, […]"
- 3 Rosa ‘Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria’, a white hybrid tea rose cultivar.
"W. H. Elliott tried the experiment of throwing out a bench of Kaiserins at Christmas that had been blooming all summer and substituting Brides and Bridesmaids for winter flowering and judging from present appearances it was a success."
Etymology
From German Kaiserin. The rose was named after Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein by the German rose breeder Peter Lambert in 1891.
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