rajah

Example Sentences

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It could be a wedding feast, perhaps, thrown by a rajah to celebrate the marriage of one of his sons — some occasion for which no expense would be spared.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2022

He’s often called the “sultan of sequins, the rajah of rhinestones” and has won numerous Emmy Awards for his designs and been nominated for Academy Awards.

From Washington Times • Apr. 18, 2016

He's often called the "sultan of sequins, the rajah of rhinestones" and has won numerous Emmy Awards for his designs and been nominated for Academy Awards.

From US News • Apr. 18, 2016

We’d carried him up the stairs like a drunken rajah.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2015

Like the Malays, they call the heir of a rajah the Rajah-muda; the nephew of a sultan uses the epithet Paduca; the son of a sultan calls himself Majarasin, the pure or mighty.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.