noun
- plural of doge; former chief magistrates of the republics of Venice and Genoa
Usage: historical
Examples
- The doges of Venice ruled the republic for over a thousand years.
- Many doges were buried in St. Mark’s Basilica.
- The palace of the doges is now a famous museum.
- Several doges commissioned great works of art during the Renaissance.
- The last of the Venetian doges abdicated in 1797.
- Portraits of former doges line the walls of the Doge’s Palace.