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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Phanariot

/(fȧ*năr"ĭ*ŏt)/ · Pha·nar·i·ot · IPA
01 n. One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage.
  1. 1.
    One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage.