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Orange-Nassau

Proper noun

Meaning

The royal house or family of the Netherlands.

The Principality of Orange-Nassau.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

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. Source: Internet

Honours Gullit was made a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau on 27 June 1988. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

The House of Orange-Nassau came to be the monarchs of this new state. Source: Internet

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