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lacquey

[ lak-ee ]

noun

plural: lacqueyslacqueyed lacqueying
  1. a variant of lackey.


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Of course the Earl's nominee, his lacquey, as the honourable gentleman might be called, would be returned.

Any one serving a big man, whatever the service may be, is the big man's lacquey in the People's Banner.

Upon this the lacquey instantly threw open the door and called out the names of the new-comers.

He should remember Dryden's quaint admonition not to 'lacquey by the side of his author, but to mount up behind him.'

Until the hour when they turned me out of their house like a dishonest lacquey, without allowing me a word of explanation.

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