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Prester

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Pres´ter
n.1.A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.
2.One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.
1.A priest or presbyter; as, Prester John.


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Beyond that again is the kingdom of Prester John and of the great Cham.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
What mind, that is not wholly barbarous and uncultured, can find pleasure in reading of how a great tower full of knights sails away across the sea like a ship with a fair wind, and will be to-night in Lombardy and to-morrow morning in the land of Prester John of the Indies, or some other that Ptolemy never described nor Marco Polo saw?
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
Nobody ever asks after you--neither man nor woman; and if I mention your name in company, the men look as if I had spoken of Prester John; and the women sneer covertly.
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