lacquey

plural lacqueys

1. archaicArchaic form of lackey.

   I serve my master, but I am not compelled to spend the night parleying with his lacqueys.

   1899, S. R. Crockett, The Black Douglas

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   Represent to yourselves, Gentlemen, I entreat you, the many false keys, bribes to the lacqueys of authors that can keep them, and collusions with the booksellers of authors that cannot, which were required in the prosecution of this arduous undertaking.

   1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets

   "She was brought to us by two richly-attired lacqueys," replied the man, "in this very litter."

   1841, William Harrison Ainsworth, Old Saint Paul's

   St. Martin [of Tours] looks round, first, deliberately;—becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey. St. Martin turns his back on the Empress, and hobnobs with him!

   1884, John Ruskin, “By the Rivers of Waters”, in “Our Fathers Have Told Us.”: Sketches of the History of Christendom for Boys and Girls who have been Held at Its Fonts, part I (The Bible of Amiens), Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, pages 30–31

present singular third person lacqueys · participle present lacqueying · participle past lacqueyed · past lacqueyed

1. archaicArchaic form of lackey.