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Definition of: Orleans
(ôr·lā·ä′)
Name of a cadet branch of the Valois and Bourbon houses of France, many members of which have been prominent in French history from the 14th century.
—Louis Philippe Joseph d',
1747–93, revolutionary and egalitarian; guillotined: known as Philippe Égalité.
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