Crossword-Solution: LANGUET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Languet | n. | Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth. |
| Languet | n. | That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LANGUET | anagram | LUNGEAT |
We have 1 clue for the answer “LANGUET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| TONGUE-shaped part | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LANGUET (5)
The beadle and the giver of holy water, with whom he may have had some private understanding, would say of him:-- “He is one of the worthy poor of the church; he used to know the rector Languet, who built Saint-Sulpice; he was for twenty years beadle of the church before the Revolution, and he is now over a hundred years old.” This little biography, well known to all the pious attendants of the church, was, of course, the best of his advertisements, and no hat was so well lined as his.
And (license forbidden to Sidney by his friend Languet) he had been to Rome, and seen (much to the scandal of good Protestants at home) that “right good fellow,” as Sidney calls him, who had not yet eaten himself to death, the Pope for the time being.
From Paris Sidney travelled on by way of Heidelberg to Frankfort, where he lodged at a printer’s, and found a warm friend in Hubert Languet, whose letters to him have been published.
Sidney was eighteen and Languet fifty-five, a French Huguenot, learned and zealous for the Protestant cause, who had been Professor of Civil Law in Padua, and who was acting as secret minister for the Elector of Saxony when he first knew Sidney, and saw in him a future statesman whose character and genius would give him weight in the counsels of England, and make him a main hope of the Protestant cause in Europe.
Sidney travelled on with Hubert Languet from Frankfort to Vienna, visited Hungary, then passed to Italy, making for eight weeks Venice his head-quarters, and then giving six weeks to Padua.