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1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. i. 76 With nobilitie, and tranquilitie, Burgomasters and great Oneyres [1623 Oneyers] . View more context for this quotation

1904 B. Rogers & M. A. Hewlett Road in Tuscany I. xi. 278 Who are these frostbitten acquaintances of our Redeemer, these hard men in red, who stand about while He suffers baptism or changes water into wine at Cana—who are they but Ser Luca and Ser Cosimo, and other stout oneyers of the counting-house and Mercato Nuovo?

1946 G. Saintsbury Peace of Augustans 246 The..rather bewildering mixture..of millinery, financial business, Eton masterships, postmistress-ships, and other experiences, aquaintance with burgomasters and great oneyers [etc.].

1950 Shakespeare Q. 1 57 We are offered..a Shakespeare freed from the emotional thralldom to earls or other ‘great oneyers’ that elegant fancy so often insists upon.]