Definition of Basoche

1. a guild of clerks [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Basoche

basketworks
basketworm
basketworms
baskimo
baskimos
basking
basking shark
basking sharks
basks
baskt
basmati
basmatis
basnet
basnets
baso-
basoche (current term)
basoches
basocyte
basocytopenia
basocytosis
basoerythrocyte
basoerythrocytosis
basograph
basolateral
basolateral plasma membrane
basolaterally
basometachromophil
basommatophora
bason
basons

Literary usage of Basoche

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Such was the origin of the basoche ci the parlement of Paris; which naturally formed ... The remnant of the original clerks constituted the new basoche, ..."

2. The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century, 1514-1539 by lady Catherine Hannah Charlotte Jackson (1896)
"Thanksgiving for Victory.— Nocturnal Amusements.— Triboulet the Court Jester.— The Regency of Madame Louise.— The Clerks of the basoche.— The Concordat. ..."

3. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"The basoche was an association of the 'clercs du Parlement' [Parliament of Paris]. ... The basoche is supposed to have been instituted in 1301, ..."

4. Historical View of the French Revolution: From Its Earliest Indications to by Jules Michelet (1864)
"Advocates, the basoche.—Danton and Camille Des- moulins.—Barbarity of the Laws, and of the Punishments.—Judgments of the Palais Royal. ..."

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