Champion of England

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noun

a hereditary official at British coronations, representing the king (King's Champion ) or the queen (Queen's Champion ) who is being crowned, and having originally the function of challenging to mortal combat any person disputing the right of the new sovereign to rule.

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How to use Champion of England in a sentence

Once I began reading, I realized A Gronking to Remember was a masturbatory tribute to the New England Patriots.
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The trials produced positive results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November.
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Warm milk mixed with a spoonful of fireplace ashes seemed to also be popular among 19th century England.
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The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
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A few weeks after returning from England, I was trolling the dairy section and came across the Cotswold Double Gloucester.
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And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.
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I do not know how things are in America but in England there has been a ridiculous attempt to suppress Bolshevik propaganda.
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Then follows an account of the life of the Jesuit prisoners, in Virginia and England.
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Robert Fitzgerald received a patent in England for making salt water fresh.
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As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.
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