lacquey


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lacquey

(ˈlækɪ)
n, vb
a rare spelling of lackey
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"I would have you to know, clerk, that I am a free English burgher, and that I dare say my mind to our father the Pope himself, let alone such a lacquey's lacquey as you!"
A lacquey darted to offer him a chair, but the General did not even notice him.
One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured the chocolate out.