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plural stadtholders
(historical) The chief magistrate, then later, hereditary chief of state of the Dutch Republic. quotations
For decades, no stadtholder who would counterbalance the power of the Amsterdam regents had been appointed.
2001 , Geert Mak, translated by Philipp Blom, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage, page 150
(historical) An office formerly held by Danish and Swedish officials, best translated as governor-general.