单词 | robber prince |
释义 | > as lemmasrobber prince robber prince n. ΚΠ 1652 Mercurius Politicus No. 105. 1654 Some prisoners that they brought along with them from that Robber Prince Rupert. 1883 Cent. Mag. Feb. 615/1 Of all the triumphs of invention none are more wonderful than those by which the hard-earned gains of millions are forcibly conveyed to the vaults of the robber-princes. 1957 R. Levy Social Structure of Islam (2000) vii. 306 There were times during the troubled period preceding the arrival of the Buwayhid robber-princes..when whole provinces of the Caliphate had fallen away and revenues were scanty < as lemmas |
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