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princely

adjective as in royal

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Most of the arrested men were employed by the Indore princely state, had applied for leave around the same time and were in Bombay at the time of the crime.

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No sniggering jokes now about princely flings and sulky princesses and body doubles.

The princely total of four Six Nations games and three Six Nations starts to his credit and it's Darge, along with Finn Russell, who leads this team.

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He made his writing debut at the age of 11 with a six-part World War Two adventure in JS, earning a "princely sum" of 50 rupees.

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When Britain divided its Indian colony into a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan in 1947, the status of what was then the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was left undecided.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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