perfumed prince
n.— «I’m not sure that his biggest problems here won’t be with the politically correct Washington crowd and the top-ranking perfumed princes.» —“In Bosnia, one decisive American leader” by David Broder in Sarajevo, Bosnia San Antonio Express News (Texas) Jan. 13, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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