Rothschildren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From children, plural of child, by re-analyzing Rothschild as Roth + -s- + child.
Senses: examples: text: […] 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.
ref: 1825, Louisa Thompson, “Grimm’s Ghost. Letter XXVII. News from Brighton.”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, part II (Original Papers), London: Henry Colburn, […], page 353:
text: 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.
ref: 1850 June 28, Thomas Babington Macaulay, edited by William Thomas, The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay, London: Pickering & Chatto, published 2008, →ISBN, page 102:
text: 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.
ref: 1862 May, “Theatres”, in Les Modes Parisiennes and Journal du Beau Monde, Fashions, Literature, the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts, volume I, number 2, Paris: […]. London: W. Kent and Co., […], page 31, column 1:
text: The Rothschildren. […] Rothschild, who inherit their father’s immense wealth, inherit also the true-blue Rothschild tradition.
ref: 1917, The Sketch, volume 98:
text: 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.
ref: 1959, Diana Cooper, The Light of Common Day, London: w:Rupert Hart-Davis, […], page 221:
text: 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.
ref: 1966, Randolph S[pencer] Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, volumes I (Youth, 1874–1900), Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →LCCN, page 274:
text: […] 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.
ref: 1999, The Bulletin, page 126:
text: 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.
ref: 2000, Roland Hill, Lord Acton, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 395:
text: 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’.
ref: 2020, Lucy Pollard, “War Again (1936–1945)”, in Margery Spring Rice: Pioneer of Women’s Health in the Early Twentieth Century, Open Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: plural of Rothschild (“surname”)