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noun
1.
a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign: the viceroy of India.
2.
a brightly marked American butterfly, Limenitis archippus, closely mimicking the monarch butterfly in coloration.
Origin:
1515–25; < Middle French, equivalent to vice- vice- + roy king < Latin rēgem, accusative of rēx
1515–25; < Middle French, equivalent to vice- vice- + roy king < Latin rēgem, accusative of rēx
Related forms
vice·roy·ship, noun
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