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Definition of Grandees
1. grandee [n] - See also: grandee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandees
Literary usage of Grandees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"At their own court, faid the duke, the grandees fee no one between them and the
throne, ... the grandees annually pay another under the name of lanzas. ..."
2. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1881)
"Karam [who] (was time ancestor of time grandees of Kose,” of the grandees of time
... [who] (was the ancestor of the grandees of Soga,” of time grandees of ..."
3. Travels in Siberia: Including Excursions Northwards, Down the Obi, to the by Adolph Erman (1848)
"Originally the fortified citadel stood on one of the hills, while the grandees
occupied, with their palaces and gardens, the heights adjoining it on the ..."
4. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1856)
"The reason why the princes, grandees, and ministers hated Solly—He opposes the
unjust proceedings of the council—Refuses to sign a comptant at the queen's ..."
5. Early Records of British India: A History of the English Settlements in by James Talboys Wheeler (1878)
"The Hindu grandees were estranged from the English by the withdrawal of the
guarantee; and community- of interests led them to make common cause with the ..."
6. The History of France by EYRE EVANS. CROWE (1863)
"So that in 1620 there was a general outburst of the grandees, who rallied more
or less openly around the queen. And when De Luynes, in order to pay troops ..."
7. History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the by Archibald Alison (1860)
"Proclamation of the grandees of Spain to their countrymen. nations at Bayonne
had been received by the middle and lower orders through the whole of Spain. ..."
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