leud
noun
a vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages.
leudes
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pluralof leud.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"It is better far to run the Vagrery than to cultivate our fathers' lands under the club of a count and his leudes!"
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
Order one of the count's leudes, one who can write, to step in.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
Here and there along the walls the rough weapons of the leudes are stacked up—wooden bucklers, iron-rimmed staves, 'francisques' or double-edged axes, 'haugons' or demi-pikes furnished with iron grappling hooks.
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
How do you expect me to pay you a hundred gold sous, besides feeding you, your leudes and your retinues, and keeping myself, my family and my laborers, now your slaves, alive?'
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
