roytelet
English
editEtymology
editFrom French roitelet, diminutive of roi (“king”).
Noun
editroytelet (plural roytelets)
- (archaic) A little king.
- 1674, John Josselyn, Account of Two Voyages to New-England:
- The chief Roytelet amongst the Mohawks now living, is a Dutchmans Bastard
- 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
- hire troops of the roytelets of Brunswick and Hesse - Cassel
References
edit- “roytelet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.