duke
/duːk/ noun C1- The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
- The sovereign of a small state.
- A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
- A grand duke.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
- A fist. · Put up your dukes!
Plural dukes
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“And makes you resemble the Prince of Wales or the Duke of Reichstadt.”
“Well, my dear duke,” replied Louis XVIII., “I think you are wrongly informed, and know positively that, on the contrary, it is very fine weather in that direction.” Man of ability as he was, Louis XVIII.
wrote, in a hand as small as possible, another note on the margin of his Horace, and then looking at the duke with the air of a man who thinks he has an idea of his own, while he is only commenting upon the idea of another, said:
“Go on, my dear duke, go on—I listen.”
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