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Definition of Lordings
1. lording [n] - See also: lording
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lordings
Literary usage of Lordings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"Here, too, it is a diminutive of endearment: Then listen, lordings ! if ye list
to weet The cause ... As he at counsel! sat upon a dav, With other lordings, ..."
2. Fabliaux Or Tales by Legrand, George Ellis, Gregory Lewis Way (1815)
"YE lordings all, come lend an ear, It boots ye nought to chafe or fleer, As
overgrown with pride : Ye needs must hear Dan Guerin tell What once a certain ..."
3. Fabliaux Or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth by Legrand, George Ellis, Gregory Lewis Way (1815)
"YE lordings all, come lend an ear, It boots ye nought to chafe or fleer, As
overgrown with pride: Ye needs must hear Dan Guerin tell What once a certain ..."
4. A Canterbury Pilgrimage by Joseph Pennell, Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1885)
"lordings lay one night and held counsel, making stations by the way at the few
places they mention by name, and ending Our only Race. ':. ..."
5. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1895)
"lordings, in these realms of pleasure Father Christmas yearly dwells; Deals out
joy with ... lordings, 'tis said the liberal mind, That on the needy much ..."
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