embassage

[ em-buh-sij ]

noun

, Archaic.

1. embassy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of embassage¹

Variant of ambassage < Old French ambasse (< Medieval Latin ambactia office; embassy ) + -age

Example Sentences

To the beloved trees and birds of his old home Lowell returned from his embassage, and here, with his daughter, he passed his last years among his books and a chosen circle of friends.

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With that he bade the doorkeepers open wide the gate, that his guards might drive forth the embassage.

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They were surely as peaceful-looking an embassage as ever sought a distrustful enemy.

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Roy had slept off his mighty mood, and kicked away his sullenness, and an hour of Polly's sunshiny influence had restored him to good humour; and though his brow clouded a little at his aunt's first words, and he broke into a bar of careless whistling in a low and displeased key at the notion of her meditation, yet his better feelings were soon wrought upon by a hint of Olive's sufferings, and he consented, though a little condescendingly, to be the bearer of his own embassage of peace.

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This prince was only too delighted with the terms of the embassage, and, without troubling himself as to the existence of Balas's prior claim, gladly accepted the hand of Cleopatra, coupled as it was with the armed assistance of her father.

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