salutantes

Updated: May 23, 2025

For he also has had no candles and no cigars; and he well knows, that before the sun looks into his portals, all his halls will be overflowing and buzzing with the matin susurrus of courtiers the "mane salutantes." it is as much as his popularity is worth to absent himself, or to keep people waiting. But surely, the reader may think, this poor man he might keep waiting.

Thomas De Quincey - Miscellaneous Essays