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English
Etymology
Part-translation of German k. u. k., short for kaiserlich und königlich (“imperial and royal”).
Adjective
K and K (not comparable)
- (historical) Imperial and royal, with reference to the Habsburg monarchy, especially as rulers of Austria-Hungary.
1998, Dagmar CG Lorenz, “Transcending the Boundaries of Space and Culture”, in Transforming the Center, Eroding the Margins:According to him and other critics who fashioned the concept of a German-Jewish symbiosis to describe the close ties between Central European Jewish and Gentile culture, the k. and k. monarchy was imbued with Jewish thought and tradition.
2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 80:And the dead man was kept alive in the loyal memory of his widow, the model of a husband, fallen in the service of the Emperor and the K-and-K postal service.