leud
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of leud
1750–60; < Medieval Latin leudēs (plural) < Germanic; compare Old English lēode, German Leute people
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Renounce this leud Fool, and I'll make thee a Fortune suitable to thy Quality.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague
Even those of your Father's Disposal, who seeing so many Examples in this leud Age, of the ruin of whole Families by imprudent Marriages, provided otherwise for you.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague
No, my Brother—come to demand his Portion of me; he says I am in leud Company, and, like a Boy, he wou'd correct me.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague
I'll speak to her, and call her my Marcella, and undeceive thy leud Opinion.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague
Also, I haue placed in the end therof their leud language, calling the same pedlers French or Canting.
From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by Awdeley, John
How could I resist the count and his leudes?
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Sue, Eugène
My valiant leudes, the burg's prison is well stocked, I know.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Sue, Eugène
His men bound our hands, and the leudes were taking us back to the count when these good Vagres killed our captors and set us free.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Sue, Eugène
To attach his leudes Charles had to give them church lands as precarium, and this had a very great influence in the development of the feudal system.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
The Frankish Kings, together with their leudes, who later became great landed seigneurs, and the bishops, plundered Gaul, divided her territory among them, and reduced her people to slavery.
From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Sue, Eugène
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