Definition of "heydukes" [heydukes]

• Plural form of heyduke. (noun)

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• "Will not heydukes and mamalukes, mandarins and patshaws, or any other words formed at pleasure, serve to distinguish those who are in the ministry from others who would be in it if they could?"
• "He struggled with all might; but he could not scatter on the earth, as he had been wont to do, the heydukes who had seized him."
• "In the midst of a spacious courtyard, surrounded by stone walls, stood an old-fashioned mansion with a verandah in front of it, resting on quadrangular columns which one ascended by a staircase whose brick parapet served as a lounge both for the gentlemen guests and their heydukes whenever they wanted to take their ease, -- though, of course, the gentlemen occupied one end of it and the heydukes the other."