vicereine
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Etymology[edit]
From French vice-reine, from vice- + reine (“queen”).
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Noun[edit]
vicereine (plural vicereines)
- The wife of a viceroy. [from 19th c.]
- 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 19:
- ‘I can't imagine anything I'd like better than to be Vicereine of India,’ said the Princess.
- A woman who is a viceroy.
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wife of a viceroy
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woman who is a viceroy
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