Abbes

Word ABBES
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /əˈbeɪz/

Definitions and meanings of "Abbes"

What do we mean by abbes?

A French abbot, the (male) head of an abbey.

An honorific title for a member of the French clergy.

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The word "abbes" in example sentences

In a word, the abbes are a set of people that bear a strong analogy to the templars in London. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In a word, the abbes are a set of people that bear a strong analogy to the templars in ❋ Tobias George Smollett (1746)

How many blushing choristers, how many youthful abbes bear on their heads ❋ Unknown (2008)

A bishop is almost always surrounded by a full squadron of little abbes, just as a general is by a covey of young officers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His face was remarkable for a pair of eyebrows as thick as bushes, beneath which sparkled his gray eyes; and for a square nose, thick and long, which gave him somewhat the air of the abbes of former times. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Prince rode behind, supported by his Staff, who were almost all of them bishops, archdeacons, or abbes; and the body of ecclesiastics followed, singing to the sound, or rather howl, of serpents and trombones, the Latin canticles of the ❋ Unknown (2006)

The notion of such a Minerva as this, whom I saw in the public places now and then, surrounded by swarms of needy abbes and schoolmasters, who flattered her, frightened me for some time, and ❋ Unknown (2006)

Her pleasure was to dispute controversial points with abbes and bishops; and her flatterers said she rivalled Madam Dacier in learning. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There were, besides the troops regular and irregular, about three thousand priests and abbes with the army, armed with scourging-whips, and chanting the most lugubrious canticles: these reverend men were found to be a hindrance rather than otherwise to the operations of the regular forces. ❋ Unknown (2006)

No longer do we see farmers general, abbes, chevaliers, ❋ Unknown (2004)

When one thinks of the patches and powder that have simpered out of those plate-glass windows — the mitred bishops, the big-wigged marshals, the shovel-hatted abbes which they have borne in their time — the human mind becomes affected in no ordinary degree. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The galleys of France abound with abbes; and many templars may be found in our American plantations; not to mention those who have made a public exit nearer home. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A lady of distinguished character having been lampooned by some obscure scribbler, who could not be discovered, the ministry, in consequence of her complaint, ordered no fewer than five-and-twenty abbes to be apprehended and sent to the Bastille, on the maxim of ❋ Unknown (2004)

KESSEL: But Hamas feels confident in challenging abbes because many ordinary Palestinians are also not pleased with the conciliatory tone he struck at the Aqaba summit. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The two abbes escaped as they best could, under protection of a number of friends. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Numerous songs and epigrams, of which the unfortunate abbes were the subjects, also appeared at this time. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

"The Electors of the German Empire are nearly all of them ecclesiastics; our own history of France will show you that the sons of kings were bishops or mere abbes; the grandson of the Duc de Savoie is a cardinal and an archbishop, and King Charles X., my grandfather's paternal uncle, nearly became King of France and cardinal at one and the same time." ❋ Various (N/A)

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