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The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
noun
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A dog.
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Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.
Examples of doges in a Sentence
At present the magnificent council chambers for the different legislative bodies of the Venetian republic and the state apartments of the doges are richly decorated with gilt carving and panelling in the style of the later Renaissance.
Giovanni e Paolo was the usual burying-place of the doges, and contains many noble mausoleums of various dates.
Near the harbour is the Gothic palace of the doges of Venice, which is now used as a seminary.
In 606 the diocese was divided into two parts, and the patriarchate of Aquileia, protected by the Lombards, was revived, that of Grado being protected by the exarch of Ravenna and later by the doges of Venice.
The Dandolo gave to Venice four doges; of these the first and most famous was Enrico Dandolo (c. 1120-1205), elected on the 1st of January 1193 (more Veneto, 1192).
The old palace of the doges, originally a building of the 13th century, to which the tower alone belongs, the rest of the building having been remodelled in the 16th century and modernized after a fire in 1777, stands in the Piazza Umberto Primo near the cathedral, and now contains the telegraph and other government offices.
He tried his fortune by writing doges of famous persons, then a favourite practice; and in 1771 his eloge on Fenelon was pronounced next best to Laharpe's by the Academy.
The official seals of the doges of Venice and of Genoa and of other dignitaries of those states were also of lead.