"metropolisses" meaning in English

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          "text": "Cities honored by Letters Patents from the Kings or Emperors, with the name and dignities of Metropoliſſes;",
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          "ref": "1687, J. P., The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And His Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha. Now Made English According to the Humour of Our Modern Language. And Adorned with Several Copper Plates., London: Tho. Hodgkin, page 279:",
          "text": "Which done, another Damſel comes and caſts about his Shoulders a magnificent embroider’d Mantle, worth the Metropoliſſes of three great Kingdoms.",
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          "text": "All the Metropoliſſes of Provinces (beſides ſeveral others of equal Deſerts) are moſtly reckoned of the ſecond Rank, though poſſibly they do not always deſerve to be called ſo.",
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          "text": "It was in this manner that the riches of India and Europe, accumulated upon the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates, gave ſucceſſive exiſtence to the ſplendor of a thouſand metropoliſſes.",
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