Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
Former name of First Lady (of the United States of America); FLOTUS.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, obsolete
Topics: government, politics
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Antonyms: none provided
History
From republican + queen. From the United States being a republic, and queens being the martial consort of the leader of a kingdom (a king), where the US had recently became independent from such an entity (Great Britain, under King George); thus terming the consort of the male president a form of queen.
