- a variation of lackey.
lacquey
Americannoun
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lacqueys
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"My pretty lad," said the lacquey, solemnly, "say a mass for thy friend's soul: for he is not among living men."
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
Mine is a paltry secret of a poor lacquey, but his is one which will obtain a price, and it is well to be first in the market.
From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat
At this moment a lacquey approached and bowed to Captain Fargeau.
From The World Masters by George Chetwynd Griffith
The very lacquey at the door would wonder how far the audacity of the common herd can go.
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn
The general in great distress wishing to bring the dreadful scene to an end, desired the lacquey who was in the empress's service, to bring a carriage into the court of the hotel.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
The other lacqueys ran away, but Christian was seized.
From Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
Old Dives there rolls in his chariot, but mind Atra Cura is up with the lacqueys behind; Joan trudges with Jack,—is his sweetheart aware What troubles await them in Vanity Fair?
From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson
The lacqueys carried torches, and the page his master’s cloak.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Charles G. Addison
Lydie answered in monosyllables; she could not bring herself to speak, although she quite appreciated milor's desire to appear natural and unconcerned before his own lacqueys.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Of pretty dark-eyed roguish Toinon, neither the lacqueys, nor pages, nor hairdressers could make anything.
From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
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