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Definition: Phanariot
Phanariot
\Pha*nar"i*ot\, n. Also Phanariote
\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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]