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  • noun Plural form of abbe.

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Examples

  • In a word, the abbes are a set of people that bear a strong analogy to the templars in London.

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

  • In a word, the abbes are a set of people that bear a strong analogy to the templars in

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 01 Tobias George Smollett 1746

  • In a word, the abbes are a set of people that bear a strong analogy to the templars in

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete Tobias George Smollett 1746

  • How many blushing choristers, how many youthful abbes bear on their heads

    Les Miserables 2008

  • A bishop is almost always surrounded by a full squadron of little abbes, just as a general is by a covey of young officers.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • 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.

    A Start in Life 2007

  • 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

    Burlesques 2006

  • 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

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

  • Her pleasure was to dispute controversial points with abbes and bishops; and her flatterers said she rivalled Madam Dacier in learning.

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

  • 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.

    Burlesques 2006

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