lacquey
noun
a variant of lackey.
lacqueys
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pluralof lacquey.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Afternoon brings ceremonious visits, when grand ladies, sailing in their hoops, salute each other, and beaux make legs on entering a drawing-room, and lacqueys hand round chocolate on silver salvers.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
Chariots and horsemen, torch-bearers and lacqueys, followed in order.
From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson
Each gentleman had a page and two lacqueys in livery waiting by his horse’s side.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Charles G. Addison
It was showing scant civility to leave them in the hall, like lacqueys.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
To Ghent he went, and sought an audience, but was put off and baffled by lacqueys and pages.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
