duumvirate

/doo-uhm-ver-it, dyoo-/US // duˈʌm vər ɪt, dyu- //UK // (djuːˈʌmvɪrɪt) //

二重奏,十二星座,二重唱,二人行

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a coalition of two persons holding the same office, as in ancient Rome.
- : the office or government of two such persons.

Their triumvirate—duumvirate rather, Lepidus was nobody—matrimony consolidated.
But the Duumvirate seemed utterly incapable of devising a coherent policy for central or eastern Europe.
Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary?
Rarely does history exhibit such a duumvirate as that of Epaminondas and Pelopidas.
The duumvirate did not last, and the count and Nino soon quarrelled.