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royalet Now rare.|ˈrɔɪəlɛt|
Forms: 7 royalett(e, royallet, royolet, 7, 9 royalet.
[f. royal n. 1 + -et1, perh. after F. roitelet.]
A petty king or chieftain; a kinglet, princelet.
Used by several writers in the 17th cent., and revived by Southey and Landor in the 19th.
1650Fuller Pisgah i. viii. 22 These royolets contented themselves, that their crowns..were as bright..as those of the mightiest monarchs. 1660― Mixt Contempl. ii. xli. 60 King Hen. the Seventh was much troubled..with Idols, Scenecal Royaletts, poor, petty, pittifull Persons, who pretended themselves Princes. 1690Leybourn Curs. Math. 460 b, Causing the Royalets to become Homagers to the Crown of England.
1808Southey Chron. Cid 432 Royalets swarm in the barbarous ages of society. 1829Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1853 I. 501/2 Defend me from being carried down the stream of time among a shoal of royalets. 1872R. F. Burton Zanzibar II. 63 At Kikuzu the caravan found a royalet,..whose magical powers were greatly feared. |