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vice-queen
[vice-.]
a. A woman ruling as the representative of a queen.
b. The wife of a viceroy. (Cf. vicereine.)
1578T. N. tr. Conq. W. India (1596) 7 His mother and three sisters..came to the Iland of Santo Domingo, with that vicequeene the Lady Mary of Toledo. 1628–9Digby Voy. Medit. (Camden) 77, I..sent some letters to the Vice⁓queene of Sardinia. 1667Lond. Gaz. No. 221/3 Naples, Dec. 13... The next day the Vice-Roy went incognito to visit him, which was the day after returned him by the Cardinal: who paid also his complements to the Vice Queen. 1749Smollett Gil Blas iii. ix, Heavens! what luxury and magnificence! I believed myself in the palace of a vice-queen. 1796Nelson 28 Sept. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) II. 284 If the Enemy land near Bastia, the Vice-Queen's Yatch may be useful. 1842Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. ix. 139 Think of..the vice-queen of Portugal labouring as a bookseller's drudge. 1894Dublin Rev. Oct. 463 A great Roman lady, who played the part of a vice-queen in Judea. |