Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
mynheer .
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Examples
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At twenty-five, given a tasseled cap, doublet and hose, and a long, slim pipe, Ben Westerveld would have been the prototype of one of those rollicking, lusty young mynheers that laugh out at you from a Frans
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At twenty-five, given a tasselled cap, doublet and hose, and a long, slim pipe, Ben Westerveld would have been the prototype of one of those rollicking, lusty young mynheers that laugh out at you from a Frans Hals canvas.
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He found out all the mynheers, whose bits of land had drifted off.
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` I've heard say that there are Dutch and Spanish settlements out in these parts, and maybe we shall fall in with one of them, and both the mynheers and dons are good sort of people, and will treat us kindly. '
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"If the mynheers do not wish to be made prisoners, they had better be out of the village as soon as they can saddle up," he said.
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Hollanders call it one of their national treasures, and will not sell it -- well, did you not see that I was conversing zealously with three or four of those thick, rubicund, comfortable looking mynheers?
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_mynheers_ Theobald conj. _on, here_ Id.conj. _on, heris_
The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
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"Only Nanking Cloos, mynheers, who used to be the big idiot of New
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"I thought you had reference to a private person, to one of those rich mynheers whom I have met at your house.
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