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- noun English leader (born in Germany) of the Royalist forces during the English Civil War (1619-1682)
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Examples
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Opposite the Cross there were some very old houses of the same type, character, and date as that known as Prince Rupert's cottage.
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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One of the chief districts to be opened to trade and commerce by the construction of this road is that known as Prince Rupert's Land, in
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"Was that called Prince Rupert's ring, by any chance?"
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The curious glass toys called Prince Rupert's drops recall the scientific inquiries which amused the old age of the great cavalry-leader of the Civil War.
History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860
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These drops of glass are often exhibited at the present day, and are called Prince Rupert's drops.
Charles I Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841
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Glass dropped into cold water, called Prince Rupert's drops, explode when a small part of their tails are broken off, more suddenly indeed, but probably from the same cause.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The Port Authority manages property on Ridley Island, south of Prince Rupert, which is the planned landfall site for the transmission cable from NaiKun Wind's project.
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When steel is made very hot, and suddenly immerged in very cold water, and moved about in it, the surface of the steel becomes cooled first, and thus producing a kind of case or arch over the internal part, prevents that internal part from contracting quite so much as it otherwise would do, whence it becomes brittler and harder, like the glass-drops called Prince Rupert's drops, which are made by dropping melted glass into cold water.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Her royal amour, the dashing Prince Rupert, wants her all to himself.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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It seems (from a very reliable source) that during their recent royal hunting excursion to Bagshot, the Duke of Buckingham attempted to place himself above Prince Rupert of the Rhine (Prince Rupert of royal blood, mind you).
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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