Doyen [noun]

It is therefore the doyen par excellence, and its rules and orders as carried out in its early days are original and entertaining.

The senior member or doyen of a society is often called the father.

François Verbeek became master workman in 1531, and finally doyen of the craft.

There were many duties that fell to the village elder (doyen), especially in troubled times.

And he held out the fish and Kenneth found himself face to face with the Doyen Carp.

My good fortune now brought me under the chieftaincy of Sir Frederick Treves, the doyen of teachers.

At the head of them I must place Doyen, the historical painter, my father's most intimate and my first friend.

Doyen came to see us sometimes, and as he had been my father's best friend his visits were a great consolation.

In the one, dated 1423, he is styled 'doyen' (senior inhabitant) of the village, which gave him rank next to the Mayor.

This was laughing at the King and his orders, and becoming doyen in spite of him.