perlieus

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He had gone to Whitehall to pay his duty, and had there been insulted by a man named Colepepper, one of a set of bravoes who invested the perlieus of the court, and who attempted to curry favour with the government by affronting members of the opposition.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2