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Admiralissimo|ædmɪrəˈlɪsɪməʊ|
[f. admiral n. + -issimo after Generalissimo.]
An informal title of rank applied to the supreme commander of (combined) naval forces.
1911Ld. Fisher Let. 22 Nov. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. ii. xvii. 1341 From this time forth you must make no appointment afloat for anyone senior to Jellicoe otherwise you will be in a fix in two years time when you wish him to be Admiralissimo! 1914Prince Louis of Battenberg Let. 27 Aug. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1971) III. Compan. I. 63 Your general dispositions and the measures taken by you from July 27th until you handed over the Command in the Mediterranean to the French Admiralissimo are fully approved by Their Lordships. 1928G. Campbell My Mystery Ships v. 73 Queenstown would have been an excellent place to have had a sort of Admiralissimo of all the approaches to the British Isles from the westward and southward. 1951W. S. Churchill Second World War IV. i. xiv. 220 Yamamoto, the Japanese Admiralissimo [in 1942]. |