laquais de placen.

/lakɛ də plas/

Etymology: French, lit. ‘place-servant’: see lackey n.

Obsolete.

A manservant temporarily hired during a visit to a foreign city.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > other specific personal attendants

henchmana1560

wallet-bearer1611

punkaha1613

bathing-woman1789

laquais de place1789

agterryer1824

punkah-wallah1826

famulus1837

personal assistant1910

1789 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain (ed. 3) I. xv. 120 Some laquais de place, who is paid for it, gives the earliest notice to one of the confederacy.

1805 P. Beckford Familiar Lett. Italy I. xxvii. 259 Boxes are always to be hired..for a few pauls, unless you send your Lacquais de Place who will always cheat you when he can.

1862 W. M. Thackeray Philip II. ii. 40 Mugford would never consent to have a laquais de place, being firmly convinced to the day of his death that he knew the French language quite sufficiently for all purposes of conversation.

1889 W. Fraser Words on Wellington 125 His laquais de place told him..that Marshal Ney was to be shot in the Gardens of the Luxembourg.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	laquais de place
释义	laquais de placen. /lakɛ də plas/ Etymology: French, lit. ‘place-servant’: see lackey n. Obsolete. A manservant temporarily hired during a visit to a foreign city. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > other specific personal attendants henchmana1560 wallet-bearer1611 punkaha1613 bathing-woman1789 laquais de place1789 agterryer1824 punkah-wallah1826 famulus1837 personal assistant1910 1789 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain (ed. 3) I. xv. 120 Some laquais de place, who is paid for it, gives the earliest notice to one of the confederacy. 1805 P. Beckford Familiar Lett. Italy I. xxvii. 259 Boxes are always to be hired..for a few pauls, unless you send your Lacquais de Place who will always cheat you when he can. 1862 W. M. Thackeray Philip II. ii. 40 Mugford would never consent to have a laquais de place, being firmly convinced to the day of his death that he knew the French language quite sufficiently for all purposes of conversation. 1889 W. Fraser Words on Wellington 125 His laquais de place told him..that Marshal Ney was to be shot in the Gardens of the Luxembourg. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1789
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