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Definition of Lacqueys
1. lacquey [v] - See also: lacquey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacqueys
Literary usage of Lacqueys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of John Law of Lauriston: Including a Detailed Account by John Philip Wood, John Law (1824)
"... and that at last there was no getting near him without feeing the Swiss porters
for entrance at the gate, the lacqueys for admittance into the ..."
2. Last Winter in Rome by Charles Richard Weld (1865)
"... Streets—Penitential Pavement—Cardinals and their lacqueys—Christmas Eve —The
Holy Cradle—Quaint Hat and Sword—Vespers in the Sis- tine—Pope Pius IX. ..."
3. Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (1901)
"Count's two lacqueys forward. They had just disappeared under the trees, ...
At the same moment the two lacqueys were seen returning at full gallop. ..."
4. The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities, of King James the by John Nichols (1828)
"... with fifty lacqueys in green hose and cassocks laid with silver lace, ...
forty-and-two lacqueys between the leaders and those of note, with a livery of ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"Desire my lacqueys to take away this mad foreigner, ' said he to an attendant.
" Beat him well with staves, for his impertinence, and give him up to the ..."
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