liegeman
noun
a vassal; subject.
liegemen
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pluralof liegeman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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By Mr. O'Hara's side sat his two lawyers and outside the door stood some 20 of Pawtucket's police, stout liegemen of Walter O'Hara's friend and political ally, Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under the feudal system the term of service in the field for the liegemen of the Emperor had been forty days; but that time was too short for an effective campaign.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
In triumph it bore them fleetly home; And the liegemen for years could tell How the old halls rung with "welcomes home" To Lord Hay and fair Claribel.
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Patrick Buchan
Thereupon the king made war against his disobedient liegemen.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
XC So messengers in hurry through all the country went; To liegemen, and to kinsmen, and all her friends she sent.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
