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a fancy chair where sitting still counts as ruling and standing up risks everything.
means A ceremonial chair occupied by a monarch, bishop, or other sovereign figure on state occasions, used as a symbol of royal or sacred authority.
from From Greek 'thronos,' meaning a seat or elevated chair, which passed into Latin as 'thronus' and then through Old French 'trone' into English. The Greek word already carried the weight of high seats reserved for gods and rulers — the kind of chair you didn't slouch in. The modern jokey use for a toilet is centuries younger and entirely cheeky.
- original meaning
- Greek thronos simply meant elevated seat
- England's stone
- Coronation chair held the captured Stone of Scone
- royal slang
- the throne became polite code for toilet
- empty power
- vacant thrones triggered centuries of civil war
- Ivan's terror
- Russia's first tsar literally meant Caesar
iron throne — game of thrones symbol made from swords of defeated enemies, central to hbo series and george r.r. martin novels
peacock throne — mughal empire jeweled throne in delhi, seized by nadir shah in 1739, worth estimated $5-12 million
coronation chair — westminster abbey throne used for british royal coronations since 1308, contains the stone of scone