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Definition of Equerries
1. equerry [n] - See also: equerry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equerries
Literary usage of Equerries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"By the first decree Royal Highness appoints four equerries to wait upon him, ...
The equerries will take it by turns, two and two, to attend at his Royal ..."
2. Fanny Burney and Her Friends: Select Passages from Her Diary and Other Writings by L. B. (Leonard Benton) Seeley, Fanny Burney (1892)
"... King's Recovery—The King and his Equerries—Sir Lucas Pepys—A Privy
Council —Preparations for leaving Windsor-—Departure for Kew—Mournful Spectacle—Mrs. ..."
3. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Goddard, Guibon (1828)
"... embroidered on crimson velvet, and adorned with white, red, and yellow plumes,
led by the Master of the Horse; Equerries and Grooms to attend. ..."
4. Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay by Fanny Burney, Charlotte Barrett (1854)
"that of which I am writing, I had never been informed that it was incumbent upon
me to receive the King's equerries at the tea-table; yet I observed that ..."
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