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French
Noun
prætexte m (plural prætextes)
- Obsolete form of prétexte.
1628, Sébastien Roulliard, Melun ou l'Histoire de la Ville de Melun, page 238:[…] & ceux qui les deſſeruiront, aucune couſtume, exaction, donation, ny redebuance,ny (ce que nous auons à contre‐cœur) pretendre ſur eux, aucun droict de Iuſtice , ny par droict de Seigneurs dominants , ny ſoubs prætexte de ſubiection quelconque.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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