What is "abbes"

Usage examples of "abbes".

The desire of gaining the prize excited the impure crowd immensely, and the castrati, the girls, and the abbes all did their utmost, each one striving to be the first.

He gave me a pleasant welcome, shewed me his library, and entrusted me to the care of one of his abbes, a man of parts, who acted as my cicerone every where.

Towards evening I saw, coming in rapid succession, five or six ordinary-looking ladies, and as many abbes, who appeared to me some of the volumes with which I was to begin my Roman education.

I have remarked that the king never addressed his bishops otherwise than as abbes, although they were generally very proud of their titles.

As I was sitting down, an abbe of excellent appearance, just like dozens of other French abbes, accosted me politely, and asked me if I objected to our dining together.

Although a man who frequents the society of abbes is not thought much more of than one who frequents the society of girls.

Roman theatre, and five or six abbes, the husband of every wife and the wives of every husband, who boasted of their wickedness, and challenged the girls to be more shameless than they.

The second act displayed four or five couples reversed, and here the abbes shone, both in the active and passive parts of this lascivious spectacle.

The secret of the Lesbians was only employed, however, by the abbes and the castrata.

Foreign Legion at Sidi Bel Abbes, and on the troops drawn up in dress uniform.