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Definition of Cheffing
1. chef [v] - See also: chef
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheffing
Literary usage of Cheffing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Biographical Mirrour, Comprising a Series of Ancient and Modern English by Francis Godolphin Waldron, Sylvester Harding, Edward Harding (1798)
"... or cheffing, was one of the pages of the bed- •chamber to Charles II.
and keeper.of the king's cabinet ..."
2. A Biographical History of England: from Egbert the Great to the Revolution by James Granger (1824)
"Wood, in enumerating the king's supper companions, says, "they met either in the
lodgings of Louise, dutchess of Portsmouth, or in those of cheffing, ..."
3. Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second by Anthony Hamilton, Charles, Walter Scott, Thomas Blount (1859)
"... of Eleanor Quin (Gwyn), or in that of Baptist May ; but he losing his credit,
cheffing had the greatest trust among them. ..."
4. Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second by Anthony Hamilton, Charles, Thomas Blount (1846)
"... or in the apartment of Eleanor Quin (Gwyn), or in that of Baptist May ; but
he losing his credit, cheffing bad the greatest trust among them."—.-! ..."
5. Memoirs of Count Grammont by Anthony Hamilton (1903)
"him (calling him "cheffing") as holding the "greatest trust" in harbouring the
royal supper companions (Athena Oxon., edit. Bliss, ii., 1038). ..."
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