kinglet
Noun
Noun
kinglet (plural kinglets)
- (chiefly pejorative) A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗, [https://archive.org/stream/MontaigneImages/Montaigne#page/n/mode/1up page reguli}}], or pettie Kings.]:
- Cæsar termeth all the Lords, which in his time had justice in France, to be Kinglets [tr. {{m
- “My son hears tales. In the viceroy’s personal entourage, one could scarcely help it. And he tells me of them. Our new viceroy would not refuse the Crown if offered, but he guards his line of retreat. There are stories that, failing Imperial heights, he plans to carve out a new Empire in the Barbarian hinterland. It is said, but I don’t vouch for this, that he has already given one of his daughters as wife to a Kinglet somewhere in the uncharted Periphery.”
- French: roitelet
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