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  • proper noun The royal house or family of The Netherlands.

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Examples

  • A Netherlands monarchy had existed only since 1815, before which members of the House of Orange-Nassau were Stadtholders of some or all of the United Provinces, a sort of stand-in for a nonexistent monarch who before the Dutch Revolt against Spain might have been a Hapsburg and afterward was a purely fictitious personage.

    When George Meets John 2004

  • A Netherlands monarchy had existed only since 1815, before which members of the House of Orange-Nassau were Stadtholders of some or all of the United Provinces, a sort of stand-in for a nonexistent monarch who before the Dutch Revolt against Spain might have been a Hapsburg and afterward was a purely fictitious personage.

    When George Meets John 2004

  • A Netherlands monarchy had existed only since 1815, before which members of the House of Orange-Nassau were Stadtholders of some or all of the United Provinces, a sort of stand-in for a nonexistent monarch who before the Dutch Revolt against Spain might have been a Hapsburg and afterward was a purely fictitious personage.

    When George Meets John 2004

  • In 1955, now a CBS correspondent in Washington, I was advised that the queen had conferred on me a decoration, Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • In 1955, now a CBS correspondent in Washington, I was advised that the queen had conferred on me a decoration, Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • In 1955, now a CBS correspondent in Washington, I was advised that the queen had conferred on me a decoration, Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau.

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • SCHORR: That pin is a Dutch decoration called an Orange-Nassau -- Officer of Orange-Nassau awarded to me by Queen Juliana.

    CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2001 2001

  • Lord Tweedsmuir was wounded, was mentioned in despatches twice and was decorated with the Military O.B.E. and the Order of Orange-Nassau.

    Twenty-Five Years in Canada 1961

  • John William Friso, however, also took the title, and his successors the stadtholders and kings of the Netherlands have all been designated princes of Orange-Nassau.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • Calvinistic creed, and the crumbling fort of Orange-Nassau, the scene of many stirring incidents in the island past, adjoins the beautiful thatched bungalow of the Resident, the broad eaves emerging from depths of richest foliage.

    Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

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