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Meanings of promotion to queen in English

Queening.

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Examples for "queening"
Examples for "queening"
1
Mrs. Rennie has been queening it in Riverton society for the past month.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
2
She was queening it, apparently, over a little band of awed masculine worshippers.
Active Service
3
Sibyl, queening it at some distance, had the air of conferring a favour as she listened.
The Whirlpool
4
Let her stay in her sphere queening it, and leave us poor mortals to our bread and butter.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 / A Maga...
5
This is the archetypal picture one has of Maugham: queening it, in every sense of the word, over the villa.
The Irish Times