an appellation designating nobility short forsubtitle written material giving credits in a film or television programme a championship the legal right to possession of property, esp real property the basis of such right the documentary evidence of such right:title deeds ...
If the nobility chose to eat pottage, then more expensive items such as spices and meat would be included. Many pottages later, around the end of the Tudor era, our pudding gained a more solid form, and a new name, plum pudding, but beef still figured amongst its ingredients. It was ...
which mock the conspicuous consumption of the English nobility and middle classes and show sympathy with ordinary working people. Boitard was perhaps responsible for the engraved tailpieces at the end of each section of the 1738Constitutions. In 1744, Boitard also provided illustrations for the freema...
Terriers were more popular among the lower class common folk in Britain because they were used to hunt small rodents and animals that the nobility didn’t want. After a while, larger animal hunting became scarce and required small animals to supplement their food source. Because of this, fox ...
Extinction of Wolves in the British Isles By the turn of the 16th century, wolves were extinct in England and Wales. However, they held for for longer in other parts of the British realm. In Scotland, wolves survived almost 200 years more, despite regular wolf hunts organized by nobility an...
But let’s not compare the gentry to the nobility. That’s another red herring, and one I dragged in. I got tempted by those numbers. Sorry. Let’s compare the gentry to the peasantry instead. The most striking difference is that where the peasants were hard working and often hungry, ...
"nobility obliges"; those granted a higher station in life have a duty to extend (possibly token) favours/courtesies to those in lower stationsnom de guerre pseudonym to disguise the identity of a leader of a militant group, literally "war name", used in France for "pseudonym"nom de plu...
names of men, or possibly sometimes of places; but we cannot utter the name of Lincoln without thinking of the whole terrible struggle of our Civil War; the name of Washington, without thinking of nobility, patriotism, and self-sacrifice in a pure and great man; Napoleon, without...
We can therefore note two distinctive and potentially conflicting strands: the continuation of a substantial presence of professional players at court and recognition of the viol’s status as an instrument of sufficient dignity to be played not just by the nobility, but even by royalty, thus ...
Their whole nature was strong and keen, full of energy, and with none of the sluggish dulness that was always growing over the faculties of the Frank and Saxon; and even to this day the same energy prevails among their descendants, a certain portion of the English nobility, and the ...