vice-roi

plural vice-rois

1. alternativeAlternative form of viceroy.

   He was the vice-roi of Hicem and absolutely refused to be drawn into any lengthy discussion.

   1959, Salamon Dembitzer, Visas for America: A Story of an Escape, Sydney, N.S.W.: Villon Press, page 264

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   Among theſe are reckoned, a Hiſtory (in good repute) of the great men of Sicily, Palermo, 1704, 4to. and a Hiſtory of the Vice-rois of Sicily, ibid. 1697, folio.

   1798, A New and General Biographical Dictionary; Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; […], volume I, London: […] G. G. and J. Robinson, J. Johnson, J. Nichols, J. Sewell, […], page 563

   The vice-roi of Italy with a central army also of 80,000 men, composed of his own corps and of that of Saint-Cyr, was to throw himself between the two Russian armies, and to cut off their communication.

   1824 November, The Universal Review, page 279

   The prosperity of Antwerp, once so great, began to decline under the tyranny of the cruel Duke of Alva, the vice-roi of Philip II of Spain.

   1841, The European Indicator or Road-book for Travellers on the Continent, […], Florence: […] Félix Le Monnier, page 17, column 1

   You find, however, a curious collection of portraits of all the vice-rois and first presidents of Peru, from Columbus down to the Grand-Marshal Lamar.

   1851, Hogg’s Instructor, volume VI, Edinburgh: […] James Hogg, […]; London: R. Groombridge & Sons, page 44, column 1

   And in the letters to the vice-rois, although she used all the humble phraseology of a language which is full of such phrases, yet there is an unbending pride and independence behind it all.

   1923, Thalia Estella Smith Millard, A Critical Study of the Poetic Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, page 67