Gueux

[ French gœ ]

/ French gœ /

noun

Les Gueux.

Definition for gueux (2 of 2)

Les Gueux

[ ley gœ ]

/ leɪ ˈgœ /

noun

a league of Dutch and Flemish patriots, composed chiefly of nobles and formed in 1566 to resist the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition into the Netherlands.

(later) any of various Dutch or Flemish partisan groups organized to gain independence for the Netherlands from Spain.

Origin of Les Gueux

< French: literally, the beggars

Example sentences from the Web for gueux

The log-cabin and hard-cider watchwords were born of a taunt, like the "Gueux" of the Netherlands.

Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 |Various
The Gueux league, in short, had now given to things an entirely different form.

The Revolt of The Netherlands, Complete |Friedrich Schiller
At last it came into the head of one of them to cry, "Long live the Gueux!"

The Revolt of The Netherlands, Complete |Friedrich Schiller
The celebrated Henry Etienne accused the author of speaking the language of the Gueux.

Letters of John Calvin, Volume I (of 4) |Jules Bonnet

Immediately they drank to one another under this name, and the cry "long live the Gueux!"

The Revolt of The Netherlands, Complete |Friedrich Schiller

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Gueux

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Definition for gueux (2 of 2)

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Origin of Les Gueux

Example sentences from the Web for gueux