Lordling
[lɒ:dliŋ]
Definition
(n.) A little or insignificant lord.
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Examples
- Thus, at eighteen, we find him, an English lordling, who could speak no English, and yet who could read and write his native language. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The freeman or the weak lordling of a petty territory linked himself to some more powerful lord. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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