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- noun Plural form of
hidalgo .
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Examples
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Gil Blas and his companions? our squires less absurd and ignorant than the hidalgoes of Valencia?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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The capture of Fort Sumter, with its garrison of less than a hundred men, was hardly Gibraltar; yet it would put the grandiloquent hidalgoes of Spain on their mettle to make more clatter over the downfall of the cross of St. George from that historic rock.
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor
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Owning immense tracts of land, riding upon fleet horses, relieved of all necessity of honest work, they soon became in their manner of living, veritable hidalgoes.
Starr King in California Simonds, William D 1917
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English and Spanish ships dipped colors to each other as courteous hidalgoes might have doffed hats; and the guns roared each other salutes, that set the seas churning.
Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903
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Was it because of those Spanish hidalgoes wrecked on the Irish coast long since?
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Was it because of those Spanish hidalgoes wrecked on the Irish coast long since?
You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897
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Was it because of those Spanish hidalgoes wrecked on the Irish coast long since?
You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Owning immense tracts of land, riding upon fleet horses, relieved of all necessity of honest work, they soon became in their manner of living, veritable hidalgoes.
Starr King in California William Day Simonds 1887
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Gibraltar; yet it would put the grandiloquent hidalgoes of Spain on their mettle to make more clatter over the downfall of the cross of St. George from that historic rock.
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They were exposed to new hostilities: they found the climate unhealthy; their numbers rapidly dwindled away from disease or poor food; starvation stared them in the face, in spite of the fertility of the soil; dissensions and jealousies arose; they were governed with great difficulty, for the haughty hidalgoes were unused to menial labor, and labor of the most irksome kind was necessary; law and order were relaxed.
Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852
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