palaiologan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of the last ruling dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, which reigned from AD 1261 to AD 1453.
adj
Pertaining to the reign of the Palaiologans.
Example Sentences
- "Scholars have also posited renaissances after the tenth century during the reign of the Komnenes in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and under the Palaiologans in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries."
- "Palaiologan art favoured tall, robust figures wrapped in garments that revealed the body underneath."
- "Regardless of style, there is no doubt that Palaiologan hagiography was written by urban authors addressing urban audiences whether in Constantinople or Thessalonike."
- "The imagery of the Virgin of the Walls and the imperial scene of supplication and presentation celebrate the restored Byzantine city and its centrality in the early Palaiologan conception of empire."