Great Turk

English

Noun

Great Turk (plural Great Turks)

1. (historical) The Ottoman sultan.
   • 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48:

     The great Turke [translating grand Seigneur] doth not permit at this day any Christian or Jew, to have or keep any horse for himselfe, throughout all his large Empire.