Definition of Maches

1. mache [n] - See also: mache

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maches

machair
machaira
machairas
machairodont
machairodus
machairs
machan
machans
macharomancy
machatschkiite
mache
macheer
macheers
macher
machers
maches (current term)
machete
macheted
machetelike
machetes
macheting
machiavelian
machiavellianism
machicolate
machicolated
machicolates
machicolating
machicolation
machicolations
machicotage

Literary usage of Maches

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Verney Family by Margaret Maria Williams-Hay Verney (1892)
"THE ' maches ' OF THE FIVE GIRLS. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be ..."

2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"maches. In Morte Arthure, 2950, we are told how Sir Gawain attacked his enemies; one of his feats was that he "metes the mache» of Mees, and melles hym ..."

3. Notes on English Etymology: Chiefly Reprinted from the Transactions of the by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"The 'somebody' is here called 'the maches of Mees,' which has not been explained. ... Hence ' the maches of Mees' means the governor of Mees, where Mees is ..."

4. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet: Containing an Account of the by Enguerrand de Monstrelet (1810)
"The lord de Ga- maches collected a large force in as short a time as he could, and summoned the brothers Anthony and Hugh de ..."

5. A Dictionary of Saintly Women by Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar (1905)
"... maches gave alms to all who asked, and was stabbed by a heathen Saxon who came to her begging, at a place called afterwards Merthyr maches or IЛ an ..."

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