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vaivode
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noun
  1. A local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe, especially early semi-independent rulers of Transylvania.
  2. An administrative chief in modern Poland.
vassal
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noun
  1. The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
  2. A subject; a dependant; a servant; a slave.
verb (vasal, l, ing)
  1. (transitive) To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
  2. (transitive) To subordinate to someone or something.
adjective
  1. Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
vassalage
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noun
  1. The state of being a vassal.
verge
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noun
  1. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
  2. An edge or border.
  3. (obsolete) A male rod, phallus
  4. (metaphore) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen
I was on the verge of tears.
verb (verges, verging, verged, )
  1. (intransitive) To come very close; to border; to approach.
Eating blowfish verges on insanity.
Victorian
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noun
  1. A person living, or born in that period, or exhibiting characteristics of the Victorian period.
adjective (wikipedia, Victorian era)
  1. Of, or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria or of that period
  2. Of, or displaying the supposed standards or ideals of morality of that period
  3. Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period
  4. Of, or relating to the state of Victoria in Australia
Viking
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proper noun
  1. One of the Scandinavian seafaring warriors that raided (and then settled) the British Isles and other parts of Europe in the 8th to 11th centuries.
viscount
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noun
  1. A member of the peerage above a baron but below a count or earl.
viscountess
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noun
  1. The wife of a viscount.
  2. A female member of the peerage who bears the title in her own right.
Before his own elevation to an earldom, Disraeli's wife was created Viscountess Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria.
vizier
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noun
  1. A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.
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