Pepys

[ peeps, peps, pee-pis, pep-is ]

noun

1. Samuel, 1633–1703, English diarist and naval official.

Pepys

/ piːps /

noun

1. PepysSamuel16331703MEnglishWRITING: diaristMILITARY: naval administrator Samuel. 1633–1703, English diarist and naval administrator. His diary, which covers the period 1660–69, is a vivid account of London life through such disasters as the Great Plague, the Fire of London, and the intrusion of the Dutch fleet up the Thames

Other Words From

• Pepys·i·an [peep, -see-, uh, n, pep, -], adjective

Example Sentences

Samuel Pepys, a learned Englishman, died; celebrated for his collection of valuable documents, &c.

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Samuel Pepys was numbered among its patrons, and writers of the Restoration make frequent reference to it.

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Pepys and Dr. Fayrebrother; and all our talk about to-morrow's show, and our trouble that it is like to be a wet day.

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Pepys dined with me, and after dinner my brother Tom came to me and then I made myself ready to get a-horseback for Cambridge.

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To our own church in the morning and so home to dinner, where my father and Dr. Tom Pepys came to me to dine, and were very merry.

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