Companies of cadets were first formed in France in 1682, to teach young noblemen the duties of an officer. |
The effect on the city of Edo was a permanent presence of noblemen and samurai with a huge staff of retainers, attendants and servants. |
How her beauty was known to all mankind and how knights and noblemen would plead King Julius for his daughter's hand. |
It was not, as Abler suggests, Hungarian peasant dress that provided the model for the hussar, but that of Magyar noblemen. |
Funds were provided for the eight-strong party of noblemen and ladies, their twelve gentlemen attendants and seventy-five servants. |
All of a sudden, he's being asked to dinner by leading writers and noblemen. |