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grand signior
Forms: see signior.
[ad. It. gran signore ‘great lord’: see grand and signior. Some of the forms are assimilated to the Fr. equivalent grand seigneur.]
1. the Grand Signior: the Sultan of Turkey.
1592Wotton Let. to Ld. Zouch 6 Aug. in Reliq. (1685) 683 The Gran Seignior yet liveth in Croatia. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. i. Wks. (1616) 9 Our Turkie companie neuer sent the like to the Grand-Signior. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xiv. (1660) 177 Embassador for many years to the Grand Signeur from the King..of England. 1713J. Warder True Amazons (ed. 2) 59 The Grand Seignior with all his Janizaries about him. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 399 [The Zebra] It is frequent with the African ambassadors to the court of Constantinople, to bring some of these animals with them, as presents for the Grand Seignior. 1847Mrs. A. Kerr Hist. Servia 445 Intending..to lay some complaints before the Effendi of the Grand Signior.
†2. A great noble. Obs.
The F. grand seigneur is occasionally used in recent English books in this sense.
1601Holland Pliny II. 81 The Grand-siegniors and great men of the citie. Ibid. 526 M. Valerius Maximus..beeing one of the grand-seignieurs of Rome. [1860G. J. Whyte-Melville Holmby Ho. I. 142 A Paladin in the field, a grand seigneur in the drawing-room.] |