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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN homage ▪ Closely connected with fidelity was liege homage , which the kings were equally determined to extend. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Closely connected with fidelity was liege homage, which the kings were equally determined ...
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Liège is a station on line 13 of the Paris Métro on the border of the 8th and 9th arrondissements . It was built as part of the Nord-Sud Company 's Line B from Saint-Lazare to Porte de Saint-Ouen and opened on 26 February 1911 as Berlin , named after the ...
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n. a person holding a fief [syn: vassal , liegeman , liege subject , feudatory ] city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium [syn: Luik ]
Usage examples of liege.
Jesu our alther liege Lord to leave their wassailing for there was above one quick with child, a gentle dame, whose time hied fast.
Hodges, advanced with equal speed into southeastern Belgium, reaching the Meuse River, from which the devastating German breakthrough had begun in May 1940, and capturing the fortresses of Namur and Liege, where the Germans had no time to organize a defense.
The affair came to the following conclusion: The impostor did not redeem the ring, and the Liege tradesman had the setting removed.
Neither Torenth nor Tolan sent an envoy, but the ten-year-old Duke of Cassan came with his parents to pledge his fealty to the new king, embarking upon a friendship with his new liege lord that would become both famous and tragic in years to come.
Thing was established the king rose and spoke before his lieges, first concerning matters of peace and law, and finally he bade them take christening again.
The two ladies from Liege and their cavaliers were embarking for Ostend in a few days, and in speaking of their departure the one to whom I had taken a fancy said that she was sorry to be leaving England without having seen Richmond.
Malingan, his wife, his daughter, and the two gentlemen got into the first vehicle, and I had to get into the second with the ladies from Liege and the Charpillon, who seemed to have become very intimate with them.
He died soon after at Liege, and his wife told me of the circumstance, saying that he had expired regretting his inability to pay his debts.
Besides these, there were present Prince Charles, three of the lieger ambassadors, and many other distinguished persons.
He, the rightful Ban of Suba, was not only her liege lord but her own kith and kin!
The sulky dogs would rather have three twists of a rack, or the thumbikins for an hour, than pay out a denier for their own feudal father and liege lord.
We left Spa without any servant, and when we reached Liege we took the way of the Ardennes, as she was afraid of being recognized if we passed through Brussels.
When I arrived I found two young ladies from Liege, in one of whom I got interested directly.
Such was the promising state of my prospects when my evil genius brought to Madrid a native of Liege, Baron de Fraiture, chief huntsman of the principality, and a profligate, a gamester, and a cheat, like all those who proclaim their belief in his honesty nowadays.
He started the Vieille Montagne affair, the zinc-mines, and the coal-mines of Liege.