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Definition of Dukes
1. duke [v] - See also: duke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dukes
Literary usage of Dukes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"10 before all dukes except dukes related to the sovereign In one or other of the
... The office of earl marshal to heredit- | ary in the Howards, dukes of ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"... peasants and the dukes of Normandy : ' ' ' from the peasants, by the pride
and ignorance ... of dukes from Kollo to William II the Bastard or Conqueror, ..."
3. Réflexions sur l'espèce en histoire naturelle, 1842 by Hans Falkenhagen, Ronald Percy Bell, Norman Holt Hartshorne, Alan Stuart, Eric John Holmyard, Alexander Moritzi, Thomas Hodgkin (1899)
"dukes One great change Charles certainly seems to have i,y ... The Lombard dukes,
with their undefined and dangerous power, were replaced by Frankish counts ..."
4. The Court of Russia in the Nineteenth Century by Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts (1908)
"During the eighteenth century there were no Grand dukes at all. ... All these
Grand dukes, with their wives and relations, have come to form quite a clan, ..."
5. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1895)
"Invasion of the Three dukes. eminently the name of ' the Valley V They reached
the great monastery ... This time Zaban was accompanied by two other dukes, ..."
6. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1903)
"Union of the Netherlands under the dukes of Burgundy. of yet a middle state, ...
Such a head was supplied by the princes who were at once dukes of Burgundy ..."