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K and K

K and K adjective: imperial and royal, with reference to the Habsburg monarchy, especially as rulers of Austria-Hungary.

Adjective

K and K (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Imperial and royal, with reference to the Habsburg monarchy, especially as rulers of Austria-Hungary.
    • According to him and other critics who fashioned the concept of a German-Jewish symbiosis to describe the close ties between Central European Jewish and Gentile culture, the k. and k. monarchy was imbued with Jewish thought and tradition.1998, Dagmar CG Lorenz, “Transcending the Boundaries of Space and Culture”, in Transforming the Center, Eroding the Margins
    • And the dead man was kept alive in the loyal memory of his widow, the model of a husband, fallen in the service of the Emperor and the K-and-K postal service.2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 80

Origin of K and K

Part-translation of German k. u. k., short for kaiserlich und königlich (“imperial and royal”).

Questions about K and K

What does K and K mean?
K and K means imperial and royal, with reference to the Habsburg monarchy, especially as rulers of Austria-Hungary.
What part of speech is K and K?
K and K is an adjective.

Words near K and K in the dictionary

  1. jūdōkas
  2. jūjutsu
  3. Jūrmala
  4. jūryō
  5. k
  6. K and K
  7. K antigen
  8. K band
  9. K of C
  10. K ration
  11. K rations

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