City Company

noun

(in Britain) a corporation that represents one of the historic trade guilds of London

The Musical arrangements for this great City Company's feast were on a very elaborate scale.

The younger or inferior members of a trade gild or city company, otherwise known as "yeomen" (now obsolete).

One sees exactly the same types in a country gathering as in the most brilliant city company.

Think not that a city company of the olden time would call together the men to feast alone while the women stayed at home.

He had dined with a city company; but had dined as a man who knew little of the dinner or of those who ate it.

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