doge
dohj
- n formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
- Over the centuries, the Venetians' empire-building navies gave them grandiose reason to stage an annual Marriage with the Sea--the doge on board a gilded galley flinging a ring .
- Next morning she published some ludicrous exchangeswhich Bernstein deniesbetween the field marshal of the pig-baiters and the aesthetic doge of the Upper East Side.
- When you visit his firm's vast London offices you understand what it must have been like to await an audience with the doge in 16th century Venice.