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Great Turk
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Great Turk
en historical The Ottoman sultan.
1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essyas, I.48:
The great Turke frm grand Seigneur doth not permit at this day any Christian or Jew, to have or keep any horse for himselfe, throughout all his large Empire.