What is "ruritanian"

Usage examples of "ruritanian".

Comandante Dictator-Designate Franco Milhous Caudillo wore a Ruritanian uniform, quite threadbare but encrusted with medals, tarnished gold braid, sashes, epaulets and crossed bandoliers full of spent cartridge cases.

Tachyon was dressed in a white lab coat over which he wore a hussar jacket with enough gold lace to outfit the Ruritanian Royal Guard.

In that duel Prince Rudolf received a severe wound, and, recovering therefrom, was adroitly smuggled off by the Ruritanian ambassador, who had found him a pretty handful.

He told me the etiquette of the Ruritanian Court, promising to be constantly at my elbow to point out everybody whom I ought to know, and give me hints with what degree of favour to greet them.

Sapt, and I knew that I was in the presence of the most famous veteran of the Ruritanian army.

I should be between the Scylla of dullness and the Charybdis of indiscretion, and I feel that I had far better confine myself strictly to the underground drama which was being played beneath the surface of Ruritanian politics.

He did not quite reach the impudence of sending my would-be assassins, but he sent the other three of his famous Six--the three Ruritanian gentlemen-- Lauengram, Krafstein, and Rupert Hentzau.

The real interests of the great industrialist or financier lie in cosmopolitan organization and the material development of the world commonweal, but his womenfolk pin flags all over him, and his sons are prepared to sacrifice themselves and all his business creations for the sake of trite splendours and Ruritanian romance.

Footmen in yellow livery stood along the walls, like actors in some Ruritanian farce.

The romanticism of a Ruritanian shooting-lodge might easily become a thin cardboard affair, concluded Van der Valk.

Faris Nallaneen, heiress to a Ruritanian principality in Europe, who embarks on a career in magic at the mysterious Greenlaw College in France.

It hung from his shoulder straps in heavy folds and turned him into a Ruritanian figure.

He was wearing what looked like a uniform straight out of the Ruritanian army and was scowling ferociously.

The man below his window, no more than a youngster really, looked as if he had stepped directly from the stage of some Ruritanian musical comedy: with his high-plumed velvet hat, long, flowing cloak of yellow blanket cloth and magnificently embroidered high boots fitted with gleaming silver spurs all so sharply limned against and emphasised by the dazzling white background of snow, he was a colourful figure indeed, in that drab, grey Communist country, colourful even to the point of the bizarre.

The first one told me to take the Ruritanian consignment to Zurich, but the Swiss buyer backed out at the last minute.