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Landgrave   /lˈændgrˌeɪv/   Listen
Landgrave

noun
1.
A count who had jurisdiction over a large territory in medieval Germany.






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"Landgrave" Quotes from Famous Books



... which presents itself thus. Upon a time, going to take my leave of the emperor, and kiss his great hands, there being then present the kings of France and Arragon, the dukes of Savoy, Florence, Orleans, Bourbon, Brunswick, the Landgrave, Count Palatine; all which had severally feasted me; besides infinite more of inferior persons, as counts and others: it was my chance (the emperor detained by some exorbitant affair) to wait him the fifth part of an hour, or much near it. In which time, retiring myself into ...
— Cynthia's Revels • Ben Jonson

... how he came into the Hill of Venus, but when we see him at the Landgrave's court, which we are told he forsook of yore in offended pride, we think we divine. He is more greatly gifted than any of his associates. By his sense of superiority he is made—young and hot-blooded as he is,—haughty, ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall



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