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harmost
[ hahr-most ]
noun
- a person serving the ancient Spartans as governor of a subject or conquered town.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of harmost1
1765–75; < Greek harmostḗs, derivative of harmózein to regulate, govern, join
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Example Sentences
From the moment she turned to the window at Monsieur Harmost's, she had determined to go to her father's.
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And Monsieur Harmost, whose exterior covered much sensibility, stroked her hand.
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She found Monsieur Harmost fidgeting up and down the room, whose opened windows could not rid it of the smell of latakia.
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When she had finished, Monsieur Harmost, bending forward, lifted one of her hands and put his lips to it.
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Fiorsen ran forward, stretching out his arms toward Monsieur Harmost, as if to take him by the throat.
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