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† ˈpagery Obs.
[f. page n.1 + -ry.]
The office or position of a page, service as a page.
1586Cyuile & Vncyuile Life (1868) 25 [In France] young gentilmen bee brought vp as Pages in Court: so soone as their Pagery is past, they become souldiers in some Band or Garrison. 1630B. Jonson New Inn i. i, These are the arts, Or seven liberal deadly sciences Of pagery. 1641Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Warres ii. 86 A Dutchman, who being come out of pagery, and not having whereon to ride, followed him on foot. |