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Definition of Ecuries
1. ecurie [n] - See also: ecurie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecuries
Literary usage of Ecuries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paris and Its Environs, Displayed in a Series of Two Hundred Picturesque by Augustus Pugin, Charles Heath (1831)
"ecuries DU ROI, RUE ST. THOMAS DU LOUVRE. THESE were formerly the stables of the
Due d' Orleans; but, in the various changes of the Revolution and ..."
2. Paris and Its Environs, Displayed in a Series of Two Hundred Picturesque by Augustus Pugin, Charles Heath (1831)
"CES célèbres ecuries sont placées entre les trois grandes avenues du palais de
... Il ya en effet deux différentes ecuries, dont les unes se nomment les ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"On pratique dans ces ecuries devant la teste de chaque cheval une niche avec une
petite fenestre qui repond a une chambre, d'ou chacun peut voir comme on ..."
4. Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins by Thomas Greaves Cary (1856)
"In the Petites ecuries there is preparation for six hundred horses ; and in the
Grandes ecuries, for fourteen hundred. The distinction of great and small ..."
5. Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution by John Wilson Croker (1857)
"... and should go out by the Cours des ecuries. A glance at the plan will show
that this expressly forbid what immediately followed—an irruption into the ..."
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