Gaekwar
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Gaekwar
C19: from Marathi Gaekvād, literally: Guardian of the Cows, from Sanskrit gauh cow + -vad guardian
Example Sentences
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In a small suite at Dorchester House the Gaekwar of Baroda briefly camped last week with his wife, a secretary and a few servants.
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He made his grandson and heir, 35-year-old Maharaja Pratap Singh Gaekwar, study statecraft from childhood, taught him to admire progress and respect the law.
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In his Who's Who paragraph the bulky, 70-year-old Gaekwar notes that he "receives a salute of 21 guns."
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The Gaekwar of Baroda's visiting Maharani, Sitadevi, whose gem-collecting husband rules some 3,000,000 subjects, attracted attention at Manhattan's elaborate Waldorf-Astoria with little difficulty.
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Baroda, Gaekwar of, visits the United States, 551.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various
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