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CIDE DICTIONARY

phanariote

CIDE DICTIONARY

phanarioten. [NGr. , fr. Phanar. See Phanar.].
     One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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