Whoyteboyce

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  • Whoyteboyce: Once Verdun was the centre of a Europe-wide thriving trade selling young boys to be enslaved eunuchs to the Islamic emirates of Iberia. "The people of Verdun, however, according to Liutprand, carried their barbarity yet farther. They sold to the Arabs of Spain a large number of young men whom they emasculated, with the view of qualifying them to act as the guardians of eastern seraglios."[1]
  • Whiteboys: an Irish agrarian association formed in 1761 to agitate against the tithe system of the landlords
  • white boy: a favourite
    • Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett: "Beckett was Joyce’s ‘white boy’"