Qu.
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Noun
Qu.
- Abbreviation of Queen.
- 1655 May 4, Edward Nicholas, “[Letter to Henry de Vic]”, in George F. Warner, editor, The Nicholas Papers: Correspondence of Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State, volume 2, published 1892, page 274:
- I have read to his Majesty that part of your letter touching the passing a compliment to the Qu. of Swede upon occasion of the Qu. her mother’s death, which the K. would have you forbear to do.
- 1695, The Secret History of the Most Renowned Q. Elizabeth and the E. of Essex, volume 2, page 111:
- Thus Dy’d this famous Favourite of Qu. Elizabeth.
- a. 1920, Louise Imogen Guiney, edited by Grace Guiney, Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney, volume 2, published 1926, page 152:
- Surely very noticeable, those five malted progenitors: probably gatherers of much of the wealth which set up the family, and shoved it by Qu. Elizabeth’s time into full “gentleness.”
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