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Rothschildren
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English
Etymology
From en children, plural of en child, by re-analyzing en Rothschild as Roth + en -s- + en child.
Proper noun
en proper noun form
en nonstandard en Rothschild surname
en Louisa Thompson Grimm’s Ghost. Letter XXVII. News from Brighton. w:The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal part II (Original Papers) London Henry Colburn,New Burlington Street 1825 353 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.21405/page/n357/mode/1up when the elderly worthies have arrived opposite the Snake Houses—so called because the Rothschildren were intertwined there—they stand open-mouthed to catch the sea-air, for all the world as if they were singing “Come if you dare,” to those horrid Roman Catholics the French, on the opposite coast, at a place they call Dip, because people go there to bathe.
en w:Thomas Babington Macaulay William Thomas The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay London Pickering & Chatto 28 June 1850 2008 102 https://books.google.com/books?id=hA0iAQAAIAAJ&q=Rothschildren 9781851969036 Lady Morley called my Hebrew hosts of yesterday the Rothschildren. I forgot to mention one droll occurrence – the Neapolitan Rothschild near whom I sate began to abuse the King of Naples – a fool – a villain – a poltroon.
en Theatres Les Modes Parisiennes and Journal du Beau Monde, Fashions, Literature, the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts I 2 May 1862 Paris:20, rue Bergére. London: W. Kent and Co.,Paternoster Row, and all booksellers 31 1 The Princess Anna Murat appeared as a Neapolitan woman; Madame de Girardin, a shepherdess with powdered hair and silver crook, while Madame Alphonse de Rothschild, (one of the Rothschildren,) appeared inundated with roses and diamonds, an amphora in hand (which must have been in the way of a valse), and her head surmounted by a little lyre.
en w:The Sketch 98 1917 The Rothschildren. Rothschild, who inherit their father’s immense wealth, inherit also the true-blue Rothschild tradition.
en w:Diana Cooper The Light of Common Day London w:Rupert Hart-Davis,Soho Square 1959 221 https://archive.org/details/lightofcommonday0000unse/page/221/mode/1up At noon on 19 July I was writing: / At the port / We had a merry dinner with the Rothschildren and Winston and Venetia, Winston packed for the Ferry with bezique-cards in hand for plucking me.
en w:Randolph S[pencer] Churchill Winston S. Churchill I (Youth, 1874–1900) Boston, Mass. Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press 1966 274 https://archive.org/details/winstonschurchil01chur_0/page/274/mode/1up 66-12065 The Rothschilds, in all the countries in which they settled, prospered and proved adaptable and good citizens of the countries of their adoption. They successfully transcended all kinds of snobbery and racial distaste in England, France, Germany and Austria. They acclimatized themselves to the new atmosphere in which they were living, and established rapidly their own standards of comfort, luxury, artistic taste and above all of cuisine. The Rothschildren achieved in many people’s eyes the status of minor royalty.
en w:The Bulletin 1999 126 one of the Rothschildren cabled an offer of £400. The finder was patriotic enough to accept a smaller bid from Dunedin Museum. There is talk of a lawsuit between owners of dredge and finder as to rights of property in the egg.
en w:Roland Hill Lord Acton New Haven, Conn.; London w:Yale University Press 2000 395 https://archive.org/details/lordacton0000hill/page/395/mode/1up 0-300-07956-7 Rothschild was the son of the Liberal MP for the City of London who was to have been raised to the peerage with Acton in 1869 but whose name was later withdrawn; his son received the honour in 1885. Acton was a frequent guest of the “Rothschildren,” as he called them, at Tring.
en Lucy Pollard War Again (1936–1945) Margery Spring Rice: Pioneer of Women’s Health in the Early Twentieth Century w:Open Book Publishers 2020 116 https://archive.org/details/e8709199-42c9-48b2-b127-1ffc6b1b7a6f/page/116/mode/1up 978-1-78374-881-5 The Ehrlichs and the Rothschilds1 were Jewish and, after the Anschluss, Margery was able to offer them sanctuary while they established themselves in Britain. 1 Always referred to by Margery as ‘the Rothschildren’.
Noun
en noun form
en nonstandard en Rothschild very rich person
en [Thomas Hood] Open Sesamé; or, the Way to get Money. By a Rich Man, who was once Poor. London, 1832. Griffiths. w:The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts London Printed by James Holmes,4, Took’s Court, Chancery Lane. Published at the Office, 2, Catherine Street, Strand, by J. Francis.Sold by all booksellers and newsmen in town and country. 1832 219 1 With such a concern, or a share even, the oracle may safely promise that one shall be a Rothschild, with a fine family of Rothschildren; but how is such a brisk business to be had, if we except the profitless transfers of Mr. Figgins?
en w:T[homas] Charles Morgan; w:[Sydney,] Lady Morgan The Book Without a Name II London Henry Colburn,Publisher, Great Marlborough Street 1841 239–240 Now, though it must be admitted that the highest grades of wealth are but rarely within the reach of a good sort of person, and that “criminibus debent hortos” is as true at present, as it was in the days of Juvenal, yet is there something in this class that admirably fits its members for the business of money-making. If they are not all Rothschildren, they are, to a man, at their ease; and it is as rare to meet with a good sort of person, as a Quaker, in absolute destitution.
en Racy Thoughts: Of a Young Man on coming home from Ascot, wet through, and having lost all his Money w:Punch XXII London Published at [T]he Office,85, Fleet Street. And sold by all booksellers. 1852 254 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211372/page/n270/mode/1up 2 The man who believes in his luck at racing is doomed to be a penniless man, let him be as rich as all the Rothschildren of Israel put together!
en w:[Frederic Charles] Lascelles Wraxall Camp Life: or Passages from the Story of a Contingent London Charles J. Skeet,King William Street, Charing Cross 1860 258 But, as I shall never have that sum at my command, I must lay aside the scheme, leaving it to be carried out by the Rothschildren of fortune.
en w:Bracebridge Hemyng The Dark Cloud with the Silver Lining London James Blackwood,Paternoster Row [1861] 290 and 293 “Well, my friend, we will crush this quartz, and what will be the result? we shall become Rothschilds.” “There are two of us, shall we not become Rothschildren?” said Ducane incredulously. “And the money?” “I will mortgage my South farm.” “Ah! I shall not die—I shall live—we shall be Rothschildren.” “Yes, we will be gods!” and, taking up his hat, Ducane ran from the room.
en Nicholas Valéry Come all you Rothschildren w:New Scientist 56 820 16 November 1972 371 Come all you Rothschildren / “If rape is inevitable,” Sir Frederick Dainton reminded a roomful of UK university vice-chancellors and principals last week, “relax and enjoy it.” The implication was that the saintly maidenhood of university research may be in jeopardy now (après Rothschild) that there may be more ministerial clients hanging around with bulging wallets ready to seduce the impoverished research worker.