Steenie(2 syl.). A nickname given by James I. to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. The half-profane allusion is to Acts vi. 15, where those who looked on Stephen the martyr “saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Steenie from Infoplease:
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