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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Dey \Dey\, n. [See {Dairy}.]
     A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid. [Obs.]
     --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Dey \Dey\, n.; pl. {Deys}. [Turk. d[=a]i, orig., a maternal
     uncle, then a friendly title formerly given to middle-aged or
     old people, especially among the Janizaries; and hence, in
     Algiers, consecrated at length to the commanding officer of
     that corps, who frequently became afterward pasha or regent
     of that province; hence the European misnomer of dey, as
     applied to the latter: cf. F. dey.]
     The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French
     conquest in 1830.

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