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Definition of Leudes
1. leud [n] - See also: leud
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leudes
Literary usage of Leudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Origin of Representative Government in Europe by Guizot (François) (1861)
"Men, faithful to the king and to the large proprietors.—Different means of
acquiring and retaining them. —Obligations of the leudes. ..."
2. The History of France by Parke Godwin (1860)
"The kings, animated by the traditions of imperialism which they learned, aspired
to a more absolute and arbitrary control; the leudes, cherishing their ..."
3. The Poniard's Hilt: Or, Karadeucq and Ronan; a Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue (1908)
"The seigniorial residence that shelters the count and his leudes is built after
the Germanic fashion: in lieu of walls stout beams carefully planed and ..."
4. The Franks, from Their First Appearance in History to the Death of King Pepin by Walter Copland Perry (1857)
"The difficulty of reconciling the exclusive rights and duties of the leudes with
the state of things which existed in the subsequent Carlovingian period, ..."
5. The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French by Guizot (François), William Hazlitt (1875)
"Here, then, are ahrimans who are already leudes, the vassals of a man, and about
to become the arriere-vassals of the king. They do not the less remain ..."
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