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English
Etymology
From alteration of quadrumvirate or quartumvirate.
Noun
quatrumvirate (plural quatrumvirates)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of quattuorvirate: rule by four people.
1910, Claude-François Méneval, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Court of the First Empire:For after all Sweden can have no interest in allowing a quatrumvirate to put hands on the whole of Europe.
References
- "†quatrumvirate, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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