leud
Americannoun
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leuds,
plural
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leudes
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of leud
1750–60; < Medieval Latin leudēs (plural) < Germanic; compare Old English lēode, German Leute people
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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
Renounce this leud Fool, and I'll make thee a Fortune suitable to thy Quality.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III 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
As to those Objections, That the Actors are generally debauch'd, and of leud Conversation; and that no Person who is a known Adulterer, or Profane, ought to be encouraged.
From A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) by Anonymous
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
The deed of the donation was signed and duly witnessed by the bishop's servant and one of the count's leudes.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
Through that opening, the King, the dukes, the leudes, the Bishop of Troyes and a few other preferred personages went from time to time to contemplate the victim in her agony.
From The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter by Eugène Sue
You shall order one of your leudes to come in and sign the parchment as your witness—yonder hermit shall be my witness, and you will sign the document in their presence.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
He obliged the inhabitants of Burgundy to submit, and disposed of the Burgundian bishoprics and countships to his leudes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
The count was set upon recapturing me who had managed for so many years to extract from my lands so much wealth for him and his leudes.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
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