tourandocte

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A fictional Chinese princess appearing in "Histoire du prince Calaf et de la princesse de la Chine" ('Story of Prince Calaf and the Princess of China') collected in Les Mille et Un Jours (1710–1712) by François Pétis de la Croix.

"Toujours la même ardeur précipite chaque année, de la province ici, un nombre égal, pour ne pas dire croissant, d’ambitions imberbes qui s’élancent la tête haute, le cœur altier, à l’assaut de la mode, cette espèce de princesse Tourandocte des Mille et Un Jours pour qui chacun veut être le prince Calaf !"

Borrowed from French Tourandocte, from Classical Persian تُورَاندُخْت (tūrān-duxt, female given name, literally “daugher of Turan”), from a medieval misreading of پُورَاندُخْت (pūrān-duxt), itself from پُورَان (pūrān, female given name) + دُخْت (duxt, “daughter”).

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