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hetman

[het-muhn] / ˈhɛt mən /
NOUN
commanding officer
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The book began with Mandelstam's first arrest in 1934 for a poem that described the dictator as a tribal hetman savoring each death like a raspberry.

From Time Magazine Archive

At table's head sat Grandson Bernard, president of Gimbel Brothers, Inc. and present family hetman.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hetman will get him, not one, but ten naturalizations.

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

They will trust me now still more, all of them, the hetman himself, Bogush, Myslishevski, the command here,—all!

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

The story of the Cossack hetman has inspired poets and at least one painter.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James