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词汇 King Billy
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Definition of King Billy in English:

King Billy

noun
Australian historical

  • A generic term for an Aboriginal leader.

    they imposed hierarchy on Aborigines by appointing King Billies and requiring them to wear identifying trinkets
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Ballarat council looks set to name its newest suburb after one of the city's most famous historical elders, Mullawallah, or King Billy as he was commonly known.
    • He was one of at least three Wathaurung men in the region given the title King Billy by European settlers.
    • This particular measure does not seem to have had any marked effect except perhaps in helping to set up a number of tribal King Billies to confuse writers on native ways.
    • The paper was handed to him by the aboriginal King Billy and contained only these words,'Goodbye, sir.'
    • At one time when a stranger approached a blacks' camp the juvenile King Billies would disappear into the gunyans.

Origin

Mid 19th century: probably a jocular allusion to the British king William IV.
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