Eg'lamour (Sir) or SIR EGLAMORE of Artoys, a knight of Arthurian romance. Sir Eglamour and Sir Pleindamour have no French original, although the names themselves are French.
Eg'lamour, the person who aids Silvia, daughter of the duke of Milan, in her escape.—Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594).
Eglantine (3 syl.). daughter of King Pepin, and bride of her cousin Valentine (brother of Orson). She soon died.—Valentine and Orson (fifteenth century).
Eglantine (Madame), the prioress; good-natured, wholly ignorant of the world, vain of her delicacy of manner at table, and fond of lap-dogs. Her dainty oath was "By Saint Eloy!" She "entuned the service swetely in her nose," and spoke French "after the scole of Stratford-atte-Bowe." —Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1388).
Egmont. Dutch patriot executed by order of Philip II. of Spain.—Goethe's Egmont (1788).
Egypt, in Dryden's satire of Absalom and Achitophel, means France.
Egypt and Tyrus [
Holland
] intercept your
trade.