Orange-Nassau
Proper noun
Meaning
The royal house or family of the Netherlands.
The Principality of Orange-Nassau.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Her guest list included all the highest nobility and military commanders of the city: Prince William of Orange-Nassau; Frederick, Duke of Brunswick; Lt. Gen. Sir Thomas Picton; right down to 18-year-old Lord James Hay, heir to the Earl of Erroll.
Honours Gullit was made a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau on 27 June 1988.
In Germany, he was ruler (as Fürst ) of the Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda from 1803 until 1806 and of the Principality of Orange-Nassau in the year 1806 and from 1813 until 1815.
James II had been deposed as the King of England in 1688 in favour of his daughter, Mary, and her husband the Protestant Prince of Orange-- William III of the house of Orange-Nassau.
The House of Orange-Nassau came to be the monarchs of this new state.