Crownling. World English Historical Dictionary

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rare. [f. CROWN sb. + -LING.] A scion of the crown, a prince.

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1884.  Tennyson, Becket, III. iii. As to the young crownling himself … had I fathered him I had given him more of the rod than the sceptre.

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