Lexicographical Neighbors of Maches
Literary usage of Maches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Verney Family by Margaret Maria Williams-Hay Verney (1892)
"THE ' maches ' OF THE FIVE GIRLS. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is
still a flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be ..."
2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"maches. In Morte Arthure, 2950, we are told how Sir Gawain attacked his enemies;
one of his feats was that he "metes the mache» of Mees, and melles hym ..."
3. Notes on English Etymology: Chiefly Reprinted from the Transactions of the by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"The 'somebody' is here called 'the maches of Mees,' which has not been explained.
... Hence ' the maches of Mees' means the governor of Mees, where Mees is ..."
4. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet: Containing an Account of the by Enguerrand de Monstrelet (1810)
"The lord de Ga- maches collected a large force in as short a time as he could,
and summoned the brothers Anthony and Hugh de ..."
5. A Dictionary of Saintly Women by Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar (1905)
"... maches gave alms to all who asked, and was stabbed by a heathen Saxon who came
to her begging, at a place called afterwards Merthyr maches or IЛ an ..."
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