leud

American  

[lood] / lud /

noun

• leuds,
  plural
• leudes
  plural

1. a vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• leudes
  plural
• leuds
  plural

Etymology

Origin of leud

1750–60; < Medieval Latin leudēs (plural) < Germanic; compare Old English lēode, German Leute people

Example Sentences

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leud leudes

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 Montague Summers

Scandalous and vain! by my Appointment, and for so leud a purpose; guard me, ye good Angels.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Montague Summers

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 Montague Summers

I'll speak to her, and call her my Marcella, and undeceive thy leud Opinion.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Montague Summers

Have I been the Companion of his Riots In all the leud course of our early Youth, Where like unwearied Bees we gather'd Flowers?

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Montague Summers

By dint of hard work and privations I succeeded in supplying the wants of Neroweg and his leudes, and of making my lands yield from seventy to eighty gold sous a year.

From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue

In the way of trophies, the axes, bucklers and pikes of the leudes, who ran away out of fear for the devil, are stacked up at the four corners of the superb heap of booty.

From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue

Do you think yourselves above us, because we are leudes of a count?

From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue

The seigniorial residence that shelters the count and his leudes is built after the Germanic fashion: in lieu of walls stout beams carefully planed and fastened together, rest upon a broad stone foundation.

From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue

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 Eugène Sue