OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22003

potentate

/ˈpəʊ.tən.teɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
capo • líder • líder máximo • podestá • potentado
A powerful leader; a monarch; a ruler.
Life for ordinary barons in Outremer Jerusalem was probably better than for kings in Europe, where even potentates wore unlaundered wool and lived in bare-stone draughty keeps with…
She was now one of a group of oriental beauties who, in the second act of the comic opera, were paraded by the vizier before the new potentate as the treasures of his harem.
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