资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Vidame \Vi*dame"\, n. [F., fr. LL. vice-dominus, fr. L. vice
   instead of + dominus master, lord.] (Fr. Feud. Law)
   One of a class of temporal officers who originally
   represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into
   fiefs, and became feudal nobles.