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Definition of Darcies
1. darcy [n] - See also: darcy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Darcies
Literary usage of Darcies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway: From the Earliest by James Hardiman (1820)
"... (from whom the darcies of Brest, in France, descend ; and who had also two
daughters, Catherine who married Marcus French, Esq. ancestor to the Frenches ..."
2. The Letters of Thomas Gray: Including the Correspondence of Gray and Mason by Thomas Gray, William Mason, Norton Nicholls (1904)
"It was an ancient seat of the Conyers family; from whom it descended to the
darcies, and from them to the Osbornes. The late Duke of Leeds lived more at ..."
3. Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society by Essex Archaeological Society (1900)
"To be buried with Elizabeth, his wife (who died Dec. 24, 1656,) "in the upper
church in Maiden where she lieth amongst the darcies long since buried there. ..."
4. The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England by Thomas Christopher Banks (1808)
"... daughter and heir to Walter Heron, by whom he had John; Roger, from whom are
derived the darcies of ... William, from whom the darcies of Ireland are ..."
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