conge

IPA: kʌndʒ

(historical, obsolete) Alternative form of congy, congius, ancient Roman units of liquid measure and mass. [(historical, obsolete) Synonym of congius, Roman units of liquid measure and mass.]
(architecture) Alternative form of congé: an apophyge or cavetto. [(architecture) Synonym of apophyge or cavetto: supports at the top or bottom of pillars, particularly rings or ferrils in the extremities of wooden pillars, added to provide support and prevent splintering, their imitation in stone, or a molding in the form of a quarter round.]
Alternative form of congee: a leavetaking, a farewell. [Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):]

Synonym of congee: to take leave, to bid farewell, in various senses; to bow, to curtsey, etc.

Examples of "conge" in Sentences

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Should she pay off old Briggs and give her her conge?
John, who follows my Lady with a coroneted prayer-book, and makes his conge as he hands it into the pew.
A messenger had been sent for him, and he was upstairs with her ladyship while his rival was receiving his conge downstairs.
Knightsbridge, taking her tea, breaking up little bits of toast with her slim fingers, and sitting between a Belgian horse-dealer and a German violoncello-player who has a conge after the opera — like any other mortal.
[5424] If I did but let my glove fall by chance, (as the said Aretine's Lucretia brags,) I had one of my suitors, nay two or three at once ready to stoop and take it up, and kiss it, and with a low conge deliver it unto me; if I would walk, another was ready to sustain me by the arm.