red emperor

British

noun

a brightly-coloured marine food fish, Lutjanus sebae , of the Great Barrier Reef

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Fosteriana varieties are sometimes called emperor tulips, and include White Emperor, Red Emperor and Orange Emperor.

From Seattle Times

The political necessity of sucking up to President Xi Jinping has so distorted China’s information feedback loop that no one within the bureaucracy seems willing to inform the red emperor that China’s foreign policy has failed.

From Washington Post

“They love their red emperor.”

From Time

Apart from shelves lined with copies of Mighty Current’s books, such as The Mystery of Xi’s Family Fortune and The Dark History of the Red Emperor, the apartment now contains not a single document connected to his work.

From Time

Estimates of the total number of deaths under the man known as the “Red Emperor” range between 35 million and 100 million people.

From Forbes

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