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Definition of Mellays
1. mellay [n] - See also: mellay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mellays
Literary usage of Mellays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Greek Bucolic Poets by Theocritus, John Maxwell Edmonds (1912)
"POLYDEUCES But such be the mellays of the red-crested gamecock. AMYCUS Whether
we be like cock or lion there shall be no fight betwixt us on any other stake ..."
2. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch, Donato Acciaiuoli (1895)
"... greatest adventurers of the world; and tumbling out of one kingdom into another,
they do battle in glorious mellays for cities and diadems and Queens. ..."
3. Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society by County Kildare Archaeological Society (1908)
"There are cries of rage from battlements, and mellays beneath in court.
But Leinster's men, ere noon blaze high, shall mourn in donjon fort! ..."
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