Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
embassy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or R. Same as
embassage .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
embassage .
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Examples
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Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
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Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
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Jamie had planned on visits only to the two Cherokee villages closest to the Treaty Line, there to announce his new position, distribute modest gifts of whisky and tobacco-this last hastily borrowed from Tom Christie, who had fortunately purchased a hogshead of the weed on a seed-buying trip to Cross Creek-and inform the Cherokee that further largesse might be expected when he undertook ambassage to the more distant villages in the autumn.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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Chersonesus imployed in an ambassage from Lewis the French King
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Emperour to the Maiesties of King Philip and Queene Marie, at what time and at his returne I was remaining in Russia, and do not finde that the perfect knowledge of the first ambassage from thence to this our Souereigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth is come to your hands, betweene whose Highnesse and the ambassadours I was interpretour, I thinke good to expresse it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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An ambassage from Don Ferdinando, brother to the emperor
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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A letter of M. Henrie Lane to M. Richard Hakluit, concerning the first ambassage to our most gracious Queene Elizabeth from the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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As namely, first that of M. Randolph, 1568. then the emploiment of M. Ienkinson 1571. thirdly, Sir Ierome Bowes his honorable commission and ambassage 1582. and last of all the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The ambassage of the right worshipfulll Master Thomas Randolfe,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Which ambassadours, together with Iohn Beuis of London their informer, and the letters aforesaid, and their ambassage, the said right reuerend lord and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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