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- noun Plural form of
henxman .
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Examples
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The _Promptorium_ has “Heyncemann (henchemanne) _Gerolocista, duorum generum, (gerolocista) _,” and Mr Way in his note says, “The pages of distinguished personages were called henxmen, as Spelman supposes, from Ger. _hengst_, a war-horse, or according to Bp. Percy, from their place being at the side or _haunch_ of their lord.”
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Edward IV. ’s henxmen were taught grammar; and if the Pastons are to be taken as a type of their class, our nobles and gentry at the end of the 15th century must have been able to read and write freely.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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