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Meanings of prefect in English
French state's representative in a department or region.
Related terms
Administrative office in the French provinces during the ancient régime.
Related terms
Spanish
prefect Usage of prefect in English
1
Tomorrow you are to deliver the guilty ones to the praetorian prefect.
2
You know that Monsieur Garconnet is entertaining the colonel and the prefect.
3
The prefect of Bang-kah next sent a message to the British consul.
4
Alencon is the seat of a prefect and a court of assizes.
5
It reminds me of when I was made prefect in primary school.
6
Swan did not crave the attention of Linley or any other prefect.
7
The prefect preferred to stay at Vienne while I remained at Paris.
8
How could the prefect of studies know that it was a trick?
9
But there are some things which even a popular prefect cannot achieve.
10
The prefect, Don Rafael Pinto, had already joined the fleeing Governor Castro.
11
De Maupas had been a country prefect, and was eager for promotion.
12
They'll look prefect with a killer little Betsey Johnson I saw upstairs.
13
It had to be the prefect, Alberto Menardi, the Court's resident Rasputin.
14
Hadrian might be very glad if he were like the prefect's guest.
15
It is also advisable to delete any junk temporary and prefect data.
16
He had been the head prefect of the Archives, Dr. Alberto Menardi.
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