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Date: 1500-1600
Origin: Early French vice-roy, from vice- 'vice' + roy 'king'

viceroy

 noun
     
Related topics: Officials
vice‧roy [countable]
PGO a man who was sent by a king or queen in the past to rule another country
viceroy of
the viceroy of India
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