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  • n  a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality
  • n  a young prince

  • While the great powers sought a European princeling to head the new state, some Albanian Moslems had their heart set on Prince Halim Eddine, a kinsman of the Turkish Sultan.
  • Always a model son, Don Juan has been a proper princeling.
  • But the manner in which each princeling generation has beaten the system continually mutates, mirroring the momentous changes within China.
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  • The sons also rise: Xi Jinping grooms more and more princelings for top slots
    Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Given the apparent ease with which President Xi Jinping has consolidated his hold on power, it is perhaps not surprising that the princeling (a reference to the offspring of party elders) is actively nurturing the careers of younger members of the “red aristocracy.” In the past year, several [...]
    June 12, 2013 - World Tribune

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