Great Turk

noun

The Ottoman sultan.

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Meanings

nounGreat Turk (plural Great Turks)

plural Great Turks

  1. historicalThe Ottoman sultan.

    The great Turke [translating grand Seigneur] doth not permit at this day any Christian or Jew, to have or keep any horse for himselfe, throughout all his large Empire.

    1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48
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