Hospodar

Meaning "lord," a title used by the governors of Walachia and Moldavia.

"Sounds well in a sentence apropos of 'the Eastern question.'"

("This was the title of the Sultan-appointed princes and governors of Moldavia and Wallachia from the fifteenth century till the end of the Crimean war. The congress that met in Paris in 1856 to settle various questions involved in the terms for the peace treaty recognized the independence of these countries, proclaimed their union, abolished the title and rule of the hospodars, and substituted a constitutional form of government.")

Flaubert, Dictionary of Platitudes (1880).

[Translation by J. I. Rodale (1954).]