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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

Next day the hetman sent a cream-colored steed of great price to Pan Michael.

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

The hetman has a golden heart," cried Basia, embracing her husband; "but we shall not show a worse one, Michael.

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

And I should have surely confused you as I did Revera Pototski, the hetman, in presence of the king, when he jested at my age.

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