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princely

adjective

Relating to a prince; regal; royal.

  • Princely birth or character

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The size of the ruling al-Saud family (at least 5,000 hold princely rank), and the accumulated privileges of its leading princes are such that kings must take care to balance rival interests.

Vodafone, having sold its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless for a princely sum, is closer to demonstrating that it is not a dull utility standing still.

A team of princely little conductors finally has somebody more obviously qualified to clash the cymbals at the end of its orchestral embroidering.

The 114-year-old building was built by the prince of theatre architects Frank Matcham for Edward Moss and his Empire chain, for the then princely sum of £250,000, but it was never actually a theatre; as its name implies, it was an indoor circus that doubled as a music hall.

The truth is that Harry, however much he feels the reverse to be true, is at his most princely when a soldier: serving his country; leading by example; reinforcing hierarchy; celebrating the best of British; and looking manful.

His pessimism won him a princely £25.

It is not the sort of place others aspire to be.If the world at large is unimpressed by the kingdom's efforts towards regional leadership, its people, while a bit perturbed by the idea that princely youth might have its fling, like at least some of what they see.

With company approval, but no budget, he built it in his spare time for the princely sum of $120 spent mostly on scanning graphics at Kinko's.

He acted as a soldier and adviser in one princely household and then came to Vienna in 1753 to serve as a valet and tutor in another.

Of the victories he made, perhaps the most vital predated his spell as captain, when he scored 103 in India's first series defeat of England at Madras, in 1962, and the long colonial hangover was banished from the cricket field.He kept his princely temperament.

Of course, neither he, nor anyone else since the dukes of Burgundy amassed their vast princely libraries in the 15th century, had seen the greatest examples of manuscript illumination laid side by side.

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