(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.

(historical) One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs, near Paris, France, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars.

plural of Port-Royalist

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

(idiomatic) To treat (someone) extremely well.

(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).