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‖ plaidoyer Law. rare.|plɛdwaje| [F. plaidoyer a pleading, n. use of vb. inf. to plead, f. plaid plea.] An advocate's speech; a pleading, plea.
1796Burke Regic. Peace ii. Wks. VIII. 256 The profit of copying musick, or writing plaidoyers by the sheet. 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. lx. 346 It was an eloquent, patriotic, and impassioned plaidoyer. 1883Spectator 8 Sept. 1155/2 His work is a monograph and a history, a plaidoyer and a judgment. |