Definition of "embassage" [em•bas•sage]

• Archaic An embassy. (noun)

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• "Brand and Gervais, fellow countrymen, come to these shores in the embassage of two very different types of Englishness."
• "'And here is Brother Cadfael of the Shrewsbury Benedictines,' said Tudur heartily, placing Cadfael close at the high table, 'with an embassage to you, my lord, from that town and shire.'"
• "John, son to Hugh's mother's younger sister, a gangling youth of nineteen, rode into the castle stiff with the dignity of the embassage with which he was entrusted, and reported himself ceremoniously to Hugh."