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  • noun Plural form of leman.

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Examples

  • Byron was angry because Lord De La Warr did not wish him goodbye, and visited his displeasure on friends and "lemans" alike.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

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    Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable 2005

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    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • In this city of Bethlehem was David the king born; and he had sixty wives, and the first wife was called Michal; and also he had three hundred lemans.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Also Mahomet commanded in his ALKARON, that every man should have two wives, or three or four; but now they take unto nine, and of lemans as many as he may sustain.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • The Opera with its lemans, the pink boudoir and its flossy hangings, the feast and its surfeits; we have even seen

    Balzac 2003

  • "It seemed not so different from my father's lemans, and they appeared to be ladies."

    Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

  • Yet men who could afford it had always taken lemans; the Goths held that to be no shame, if the man provided well for woman and children.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • Unman them, shave them clean below so their doxies may not know them, their lemans may rebuke them, leave them to the brazen laughter of the brazen mouths of st-st-strumpets.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

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