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‖ roi soleil|rwa sɔlɛj|
[Fr., lit. ‘sun king’.]
A title commonly used to designate Louis XIV of France, derived from a heraldic device used by him; applied transf. to any similarly pre-eminent individual, ruler, or divinity. Also attrib.
1890G. Birdwood Rep. Misc. Old Rec. India Office 222 The earliest coins minted by the English in India were of copper, stamped with a figure of an irradiated lingam, the phallic ‘Roi Soleil’. 1943E. M. W. Tillyard Elizabethan World Picture vii. 83 The roi soleil is indeed one of the most persistent of all Elizabethan commonplaces. 1958Spectator 6 June 721/2 Her rule is no longer the roi-soleil variety. 1961Listener 31 Aug. 319/2 Popular books on Picasso in which the artistic roi soleil of the post-war years is still pictured as on some barricade or other. 1966Guardian 31 Dec. 5/3 Cecil Harmsworth King, the roi soleil of Long Acre. 1978Times 27 May 7/1 The palmy days of the Roi Soleil. |