A style customarily (but not automatically) awarded by a British monarch to his or her eldest daughter.

plural of spur-royal

(historical) A former English gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV, having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur.

plural of kir royal

A cocktail made with a measure of crème de cassis topped up with champagne.

(card games) An undertaking to take all thirteen tricks with the suit of the face-up card as trump.

(government) The method by which a constitutional monarch formally approves and promulgates an act of his or her nation's parliament, thus making it a law.

Alternative form of rhyme royal

(uncountable, poetry) A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400).

A complicated French poetic form, a variation of the ballad form, consisting of five eleven-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E or a seven-line envoi c-c-d-d-e-d-E. Rhyming words cannot be repeated.