reginal

adj

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a queen.

   “Fidei Defensor they could not, would not, or cared not to understand; but Tabaci Tutelaris Regina—patroness of the great chew-quid, smoke-puff, dust-sniff interest—they could. Hence ‘To the Queen;’ and hence the expected rush to this Nicotine Balmoral. Hence the vision of the fair daughters of Albion, North and South, armed with this reginal exotic, pursuing their household and artistic labours amid puffs, and sniffs, and parotid exudations.”

   “It is hardly even a gift at all; for in so far as it is possible, her Majesty divests herself of her reginal state.”

   “It is, indeed, unfortunate that the Institute of British Architects should have been all these years basking in regal and reginal patronage, and affiliating to itself Honorary and Corresponding Fellows from every part of the world, and have done so very little for the profession in the way of setting up an intrinsic Court of Honour.”

   “The ruff was regal, or reginal, and the cord monkish, so a Blue hovers ’twixt palace and monastery (one picture pourtrays the dresses of the various Orders of Friars)”