lacquey
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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That lacquey was a spy of the Princess Clælia.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
From the station of a lacquey, an Italian who can amass riches, may rise to that of duke.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
The lacquey of Don Gaspar, called Antonio;—can you assist me, as I am in haste?
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
“So you are only a lacquey after all, then?” he remarked—“a common spy!”
From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
A pretty thing," he cried, "That I the King am to be sent for hither and thither as if I were a lacquey.
From The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories by Morgan, Mary de
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