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Doge vs Foge - What's the difference?

doge | foge |

As nouns the difference between doge and foge

is that doge is doge while foge is (uk|dialect|cornwall|dated) a forge used for smelting tin.

doge

English

(wikipedia doge)

Alternative forms

* Doge

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (historical) The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
  • * 1797 , , A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States , page 62
    • In the thirteenth century, a new method of appointing the doge , by the famous ballot of Venice, a complicated mixture of choice and chance, was adopted.
  • * 1982 , , A History of Venice , chapter 34, page 346
    • This reply was one of the first important pronouncements to be made by Antonio Grimani, who on 6 July had been elected seventy-fourth Doge of Venice in succession to Leonardo Loredan.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "doge")

    Derived terms

    * dogedom * dogeless * dogeship

    Related terms

    * dogaressa

    foge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect, Cornwall, dated) A forge used for smelting tin.
    • (Raymond)
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