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Stadtholder   Listen
noun
Stadtholder  n.  Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.






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"Stadtholder" Quotes from Famous Books



... this kingdom in a public character, and ordered to retire within eight days. In a week from that time, the Convention passed a decree declaring the Republic of France at war with the King of England and the Stadtholder ...
— Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) - From the Original Family Documents • The Duke of Buckingham

... that the Stadtholder would pass through the town in the course of the day. The burgomaster determine to receive the illustrious personage in proper style, and ordered the two rivals to hold themselves in readiness. Here, then, was a contest worthy of them an opportunity of bringing the great question to issue of ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various



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