BALMORAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Balmoral mean? 

• BALMORAL (noun)
  The noun BALMORAL has 2 senses:

1. a sturdy laced walking shoe

2. a brimless dark blue Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume on one side

  Familiarity information: BALMORAL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALMORAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sturdy laced walking shoe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("balmoral" is a kind of...):

shoe (footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A brimless dark blue Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume on one side

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Balmoral; bluebonnet

Hypernyms ("Balmoral" is a kind of...):

cap (a tight-fitting headdress)

 Context examples 

‘Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.’ Hum! ‘Arms: Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Before they reached us, however, Desborough’s bolt was shot, and the Colonel’s horse, coming away with a rush, passed the post a good six lengths before its rival, the Duke of Balmoral’s Iris making a bad third.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It came out in evidence that, in partnership with Colonel Moran, he had actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in a sitting, some weeks before, from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is in the personal column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks back: ‘A marriage has been arranged,’ it says, ‘and will, if rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘The ceremony, which was performed at St. George’s, Hanover Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia Whittington.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)