Doge
[dәudʒ]
Definition
(noun.) formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
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Definition
(n.) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
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Definition
n. formerly the chief-magistrate in Venice and Genoa.—ns. Dogaress′a the wife of a doge; Dog′ate Doge′ate Doge′ship.
Editor: Omar
Examples
- On high, amid all this grotesqueness, sits the departed doge. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Perceiving of what great utility such an instrument would prove in naval and military operations, and seeing that His Serenity the Doge desired to possess it, I resolved on the 24th inst. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We naturally expect more splendour in the court of a king, than in the mansion-house of a doge or burgo-master. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In this church, also, is a monument to the doge Foscari, whose name a once resident of Venice, Lord Byron, has made permanently famous. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The monument to the doge Giovanni Pesaro, in this church, is a curiosity in the way of mortuary adornment. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He is as dead as the Doges! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Editor: Ramon