Meaning of Dey | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The tenth solar month of the Persian calendar.
2. A surname.
3. A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
   Scotland, UK, dialectal
4. The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
   historical

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Examples

“[…] the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.”

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