king-count

English

Noun

king-count (plural king-counts)

  1. A monarch who is both a king and a count; the head of a kingdom-county.
    • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 184:
      The Cistercian abbey of Poblet, in the district of Tarragona, was enthusiastically patronized by the king-counts.
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