comtal

English

Adjective

comtal (comparative more comtal, superlative most comtal)

  1. Pertaining to a count.
    • 1803, Lockhart Muirhead, Journals of Travels, London 1803, p. 320:
      The eight principal magistrates, or Capitouls, acquire nobility in virtue of their election, transmit it to their posterity, and are the only municipal officers in the kingdom who are entitled to wear the Comtal robe.
    • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 173:
      In the early twelfth century its heiress married an obscure knight called Guillem Ramón (1090-1173), who rose to be ‘Great Seneschal’ at the comtal court.

Catalan

Adjective

comtal (masculine and feminine plural comtals)

  1. comtal
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