duke• But his heir, the presentduke, no longer holds pole position.• The king gave the duke the rights to more than 1,000 hectares of forested land near the battlefield.• It followed that Northumberland's men were in a sense Gloucester's men, even though the duke could not retain them directly.• Albeit for different reasons, Boris Yeltsin knows what the dukemeant.• The duke therefore had to be satisfied with rather less permanent methods of limiting the Woodvilles' power.• There was a particularly promisingyarn about a young duke, and Tavett liked a high count of dukes in the column.
Originduke
(1100-1200)Old Frenchduc, from Latindux“leader”, from ducere“to lead”