out-province

Updated: June 29, 2025

At the halfway of the meal, a gorgeous popinjay he was a governor of an out-province driven into the capital by a rebellion in his own lands this gorgeous fop, I say, walked up between the groups of feasters with flushed face and unsteady gait, and did obeisance before the divan. "Most astounding Empress," cried he, "fairest among the Goddesses, Queen regnant of my adoring heart, hail!"

Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne - The Lost Continent