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Definition of Congees
1. congee [v] - See also: congee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Congees
Literary usage of Congees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Idle Man by Richard Henry Dana (1822)
"... with large pensions To such as in a table could set down The congees, cringes,
postures, methods, phrase, ..."
2. The East Anglian: Or, Notes and Queries on Subjects Connected with the by Charles Harold Evelyn White (1866)
"On one occasion he " stood up without making three congees, and before a ...
Two members " moved that the orders be preserved and that he do hi3' congees. ..."
3. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"... standing water was brought, first to the president with 3 congees: whom ech
knight attend bare: after to ech two knights water brought againe by other, ..."
4. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Guibon Goddard (1828)
"f- They made three congees, and came close to the table; ... They retired by
three congees, and the Speaker put on his hat when they were at the bar. upon ..."
5. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine by John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1801)
"... for defraying their unbounded expences, grants them congees d' ... congees are
fold to mercantile men who ..."
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