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‖ Gueux, n. pl. Hist.|gø|
Also 7–8 geuses, 8 gheus.
[F. gueux, pl. of gueux ragamuffin, beggar.]
A name first given in contempt to the Protestant nobles who opposed Margaret of Parma, Regent of the Netherlands, and afterwards adopted by various bodies of Dutch and Flemish partisans in the wars with the Spaniards in the 16th c.
1624Bedell Lett. x. 133 Yet these people were neither Geuses nor Caluinists. 1665Surv. Aff. Netherl., Those of Flanders about Liberty of Religion, carried on in a most Tumultuous and Riotous manner, by a Rabble of Geux or Beggars, as my Lord Barlement called them. 1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1735Bailey, Gheus. 1756Nugent Gr. Tour I. 155 Soon after the water-gueux, or malcontents under the earl of March, took possession of the Briel. |