Pronounced: ZIE-duh-koh, noun
Notes: Some people may know this word; it is new to me
Yesterday’s phrase
The phrase Queenborough mayor is “a position involving pomp and show, but not real power or authority”
First usage
Our phrase came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
It is, perhaps, more common to use the word “figurehead” instead of our phrase. Our phrase came from a 1620 play by Thomas Middleton called Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Quinborough. In the play, Simon the tanner becomes the mayor of Queenborough — by the way, Queenborough is a real town (a small one), located in the UK county of Kent.
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