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Definition of Lackeys
1. lackey [v] - See also: lackey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lackeys
Literary usage of Lackeys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the French Stage from Its Origin to the Death of Racine by Frederick William Hawkins (1884)
"Pages and lackeys are forbidden to carry weapons at all. Some of the disturbances,
I fear, are due to the fact that the Comedie stands between two cabarets, ..."
2. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"lackeys and Footmen in the Last Century. lackeys, liveries, footmen—the old
society WAS encumbered with a prodigious quantity of these. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"A royal decree forbade its use by soldiers, pages, lackeys, and other liveried
servants, as well as artisans and porters. Pascal, in spite of the fact that ..."
4. The Standard Speller: Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling, Also Sentences by Epes Sargent (1863)
"lackeys were in waiting. The penalties of his offences. Parodies of the poem.
Bad tendencies. She is in ecstasies. The forgeries were discovered. ..."
5. Summer's Jaunt Across the Water by John Jay Smith (1846)
"In one of the third class coaches was a whole bevy of lackeys in their distinguishing
dress, taking great liberties with a bottle of wine, ..."
6. King's Complete History of the World War ...: 1914-1918. Europe's War with by William C. King (1922)
"Since the Prussian Beast, and his philosophical lackeys, have not been destroyed,
have only been laid low, and may at any time renew their assaults upon ..."
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