imperial
/ɪmˈpɪɹ.i.əl/ noun C2- A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
- A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.
- A card game differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump.
- Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
- A crown imperial.
- A tuft of hair on the lower lip (so called from its use by Napoleon III).
- A kind of dome, as in Moorish buildings.
- An outside or roof seat on a diligence or carriage.
Plural imperials
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Instead of a rude mixture of sailors, soldiers, and those belonging to the humblest grade of life, the present assembly was composed of the very flower of Marseilles society,—magistrates who had resigned their office during the usurper’s reign; officers who had deserted from the imperial army and joined forces with Condé; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five years of exile would convert into a martyr, and fifteen of restoration elevate to the rank of a god.
“Come, come,” said he, “will the Restoration adopt imperial methods so promptly?
However, scarcely was the imperial power established—that is, scarcely had the emperor re-entered the Tuileries and begun to issue orders from the closet into which we have introduced our readers,—he found on the table there Louis XVIII.’s half-filled snuff-box,—scarcely had this occurred when Marseilles began, in spite of the authorities, to rekindle the flames of civil war, always smouldering in the south, and it required but little to excite the populace to acts of far greater violence than the shouts and insults with which they assailed the royalists whenever they ventured abroad.
"Imperial Yeomanry, I fancy."
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