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What is a doyen?

What is a doyen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) A commander in charge of ten men.
  2. The senior, or eldest male member of a group.
  3. (colloquial) A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.
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The details of this doyen club will be found in its proper place, p. 99 et seq.
Had the 80-year-old doyen of the Frankfurt School for social research joined the twitterati?
He is a doyen of Middle East specialists in the western press elite.
At 59, he is the doyen of UK experts on healthcare law and ethics.
He was, at the time of his death at the age of eighty years, the doyen of the trade.
An interesting exception was the crusted doyen of film critics.

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