merchant prince

a very wealthy or influential merchant.

Origin of merchant prince

First recorded in 1835–45

Merchant-prince and agitator, horse and rider—where are you now?

Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) |Elbert Hubbard
Ever after the merchant-prince treated Thomas like a son; the kind of a boy he had always wanted and could not have.

The Voice in the Fog |Harold MacGrath
Meantime, the merchant-prince flung himself into his comfortable easy-chair, a spasm of agony passing across his harsh features.

The Bunsby papers |John Brougham
Feudalism ignored trade, but the baron found his rival in the merchant-prince.

Beacon Lights of History, Volume V |John Lord

The merchant-prince might as well hope to make himself a poet, as the poet a practical or practicable man.

Literary and Social Essays |George William Curtis

merchant prince

a very wealthy merchant