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- noun Plural form of
abbe .
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Examples
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In a word, the abbes are a set of people that bear a strong analogy to the templars in London.
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In a word, the abbes are a set of people that bear a strong analogy to the templars in
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In a word, the abbes are a set of people that bear a strong analogy to the templars in
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How many blushing choristers, how many youthful abbes bear on their heads
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A bishop is almost always surrounded by a full squadron of little abbes, just as a general is by a covey of young officers.
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His face was remarkable for a pair of eyebrows as thick as bushes, beneath which sparkled his gray eyes; and for a square nose, thick and long, which gave him somewhat the air of the abbes of former times.
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The Prince rode behind, supported by his Staff, who were almost all of them bishops, archdeacons, or abbes; and the body of ecclesiastics followed, singing to the sound, or rather howl, of serpents and trombones, the Latin canticles of the
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The notion of such a Minerva as this, whom I saw in the public places now and then, surrounded by swarms of needy abbes and schoolmasters, who flattered her, frightened me for some time, and
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Her pleasure was to dispute controversial points with abbes and bishops; and her flatterers said she rivalled Madam Dacier in learning.
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There were, besides the troops regular and irregular, about three thousand priests and abbes with the army, armed with scourging-whips, and chanting the most lugubrious canticles: these reverend men were found to be a hindrance rather than otherwise to the operations of the regular forces.
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