(definition) by Webster 1913 Sat Jan 21 2006 at 15:56:36

Pha*nar"i*ot (?), n. Also Pha*nar"i*ote (?). [NGr. &?;, fr. Phanar. See Phanar.]

One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage.

 

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