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Rookish
adj. Feeling a vague longing for some sort of monarch to look down upon us from a high and distant castle, which you'd imagine would pacify the squabbling chaos of civic life and drastically narrow the range of choices and issues you have to think about, finally freeing you up from bearing the microscopic fraction of a crown that forever hangs over your head.
Etymology
From the chess move of castling, which is when a rook rushes to protect the king, nearly swapping places with him.
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