Old Pretender
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Clementina's marriage with Pretender James was a runaway to romance that turned into a drab political alliance; the Old Pretender was not the glamorous figure his son turned out to be.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spirited off to France, the traduced infant became "the Old Pretender."
From Time Magazine Archive
Dempster, 40, is a gossip columnist for the London Daily Mail, and throughout, if Margaret is the Disappointed Princess, he is the Old Pretender, stating the loftiest intentions, then betraying them with yet another innuendo.
From Time Magazine Archive
He even joined the Old Pretender on the continent, and endeavored to convert him to Protestantism, but, failing therein, he returned to Ireland, where he died at Glasslough in county Monaghan.
From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.
“I have read, of course, about the Old Pretender and the Young Pretender.”
From The New Forest Spy by Evans, W.D.E.
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