Definition of "landgraves" [landgraves]

• Plural form of landgrave. (noun)

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• "For Carolina, Shaftesbury and Locke devised a constitution which provided a territorial nobility, called landgraves and caciques, but it soon became a mere historical curiosity."
• "Carolina was to have an elaborately stratified society, with a nobility of landgraves and “caciques,” hereditary, indivisible domains, baronies, manors, and seignories."
• "There shall be just as many landgraves as there are counties, and twice as many cassiques, and no more."