holy roman empress
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An empress of the Holy Roman Empire.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Holy Roman Empress.
Example Sentences
- "Picture the scene. You're the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, you've enjoyed a splendid 18th century banquet surrounded by the most powerful people in your domains and it's time to sort yourself out with a post-prandial pick of the teeth, a scrape of the tongue and a spoon of the ear."
- "Waltz into a grand Austrian celebration this fall on the Danube River on an eight-day cruise marking the 300th birthday of Maria Theresa of Austria, whose one-time titles included Holy Roman Empress; Queen of Hungary, Bohemia, Croatia and Slavonia; Archduchess of Austria; and Duchess of Parma."
- "The Dutch textile and paper-cutting artist Joanna Koerten, for example, sold a piece made of “woven silk” to a Holy Roman Empress for 4,000 guilders — twice the price Rembrandt fetched for his world-famous painting, “Night Watch.”"
- "Elsewhere in Europe, there was^([sic]) Adelaide of Burgundy (later a Holy Roman empress), Matilda of Tuscany (she led her troops into battle on horseback) and Catherine the Great."
- "At the spa town Karlova Studanka, founded in the late 18th century by Maximilian Franz, the youngest child of Holy Roman empress Maria Theresa, all of the Swiss-chalet style buildings in the spa village hail from the 1850s to 1890s, and the mineral waters that run through it are said to cure all (people bring big water jugs to fill and take home)."
- "Early death in childbirth – […] Maria Leopoldine, Holy Roman empress and queen of Hungary and Bohemia, died in 1649 at the age of 17."
Etymology
After Holy Roman Empire.