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Definition of Boyards
1. boyard [n] - See also: boyard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boyards
Literary usage of Boyards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Monograph on Plebiscites: With a Collection of Official Documants by Sarah Wambaugh (1920)
"Quant à la représentation de la petite propriété, la Commission fait remarquer
que l'introduction des boyards dans la classe des petits propriétaires ne ..."
2. Russia by Alfred Rambaud, Edgar Saltus (1902)
"Then the boyards resumed their old arrogance ; they obstinately refused to swear
... Silvester took the part of Prince Vladimir against those boyards who ..."
3. The History of Russia from the Earliest Times to 1877 by Alfred Rambaud, Graeme Mercer Adam (1904)
"boyards whom Ivan justly suspected ; he took their part against the Tzarina ...
Then the boyards resumed their old arrogance ; they obstinately refused to ..."
4. St. Petersburgh, Constantinople, and Napoli Di Romania, in 1833 and 1834 by Friedrich Tietz (1836)
"Bucharest—Poverty and Wretchedness of the Peasantry—Extravagance of th« boyards—The
Gipsies of Wallachia— ..."
5. Roumania Past and Present by James Samuelson (1882)
"Concubinage widely prevailed, and many boyards had, besides their legitimate
wife, ten or a dozen mistresses. They appear to have been gradually growing in ..."
6. The Danube and the Black Sea: Memoir on Their Junction by a Railway Between by Thomas Forester (1857)
"Resumé and object of the Memoir.—MOLDAVIA AND WALLACHIA.— Population.—Physical
aspect and produce.—Climate.—Government.—Religion.—The boyards.—The peasants. ..."
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