单词 | franc-archer |
释义 | franc-archern. French History. A member of a body of archers established by Charles VII and exempted from taxes in consideration of their services.Each parish (later, each group of fifty to eighty households) was required to equip one franc-archer. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > archer > type of footman archer1511 solak1520 franc-archer1568 argoletc1580 longbowman1738 hobbler-archer1786 1568 A. Scott Poems in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) III. f. 157 In may frank archeris will affix in place to meit syne marrowis mix To Schute at buttis At bankis & brais. 1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. iii. iii. 87 The Constable and al the great officers of the realme..accompanied with foureteene hundred men of armes, and foure thousand francke archers. 1614 E. Grimeston tr. P. Matthieu Hist. Lewis XI v. 155 Without further inquisition [the King] sends the Earle of Dammarting with twelue or thirteene hundreth Lances, and with ten or twelue thousand Franc Archers to seaze vpon the Earles person, lands and estate. 1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli State France in Wks. 261 In every Parish in France there is a person called a Frank Archer. a1713 T. Rymer Of Antiq. Parl. (1714) 43 In the War..he [sc. King Louis] found that those Franc-Archers (being Men of a settled Habitation, and way of Living) took part with their Landlords and Neighbours against him. 1766 W. Guthrie et al. Gen. Hist. World XI. 244 As the Franc archers, or militia,..had misbehaved in the battle of Guingate, Lewis broke them, and substituted in their place ten thousand Swiss. 1869 C. M. Yonge Cameos xcvi, in Monthly Packet Sept. 226 Marching all night, he surprised the franc-archers and their leader. 1885 C. Plummer Fortescue's Governance of Eng. (rev. ed.) 197 The francs-archers, abolished by Louis XI after..Guinegate in 1479. 1928 G. G. Coulton Art & Reformation xxii. 438 More harm was often done by the French royal troops, the francs-archers, to their own churches, than by the English invaders. 1939 J. R. Reinhard Mediaeval Pageant cxii. 507 There was a certain franc-archer confined in the prisons of the Châtelet for divers robberies and sacrilege. 2003 Times (Nexis) 31 Oct. 49 Charles VII..set up francs-archer companies by requiring every fiftieth household to train a bowman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1568 |
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