- a variation of lackey.
lacquey
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lacqueys
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“So you are only a lacquey after all, then?” he remarked—“a common spy!”
From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
I mentioned those who were with me in England—namely, a nobleman named Cassetta, my attendant who had come hither with me, a lacquey named Frantz, who had remained in England, and the nobleman’s servant.
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
It is better to be a lord than a lacquey to a lord!
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
Pursuing their way into the palace, they experienced no small surprise at meeting no one; at last a lacquey showed them the sick man’s room.
From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various
"Indeed?" he said contemptuously, looking at me as I should look at a lacquey.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
This castle is the property of the Marquise de Gange," she said, haughtily, "and the lacqueys who dwell therein eat her bread.
From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
And yet we live in a grander state, Sunbeam and I, than the millionaires Who dine off silver or golden plate, With liveried lacqueys behind their chairs.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
It is now used only by a few lacqueys.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
We lacqueys are like sporting dogs; we follow up the game, and when they stop their running, make a dead point, until our masters bag them for themselves.
From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat
At the same moment two lacqueys held aside the heavy curtains which hung on the inside of the doorway, and the latest arrivals entered.
From The World Masters by George Chetwynd Griffith
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