Definition of "vassalages" [vassalages]

• Plural form of vassalage. (noun)

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• "This is a big improvement over the days when it was waging a nuclear arms race with the West, and building its international network of client states, and sending in tanks to maintain hold over its Eastern European vassalages."
• "This sense of cultural superiority is a common theme among the empires of history, which have always maintained that without their stabilizing influence, the "barbarians" of their vassalages would bring about the collapse of civilization itself, at least locally, if not, due to variations of the "dominoe" theory, within the heart of the empire itself."
• "I see the noble and honorable peerage of Scotland, whose valiant predecessors led armies against their enemies, upon their own proper charges and expenses, now divested of their followers and vassalages, and put upon such an equal foot with their vassals, that"