Hague

See also: hague and hagué

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heɪɡ/
• Rhymes: -eɪɡ
• Homophone: Haig

Proper noun

Hague

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Alachua County, Florida.
   2. A town in New York.
   3. A city in North Dakota.
   4. An unincorporated community in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
3. A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
4. Shortened or attributive form of The Hague.

   Hague tribunals; Hague announces plans to reduce homelessness

Proper noun

the Hague

1. (now nonstandard) Alternative letter-case form of The Hague.
   • 1691, An Accurate Relation of the Entertainment of His Most Sacred Majesty William III. King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland; Hereditary Stadtholder of the United Netherlands, &c. at the Hague. […], London, page 1:

     HIS Majeſty being earneſtly Entreated by the States of Holland, and the Confederate Princes in Germany, &c. to meet at a General Congreſs, to be held at the Hague, in order to Concert matters for the next Campaign, was pleaſed to Condeſcend to their Requeſt, and hazard His Royal Perſon by Sea, (though in the depth of Winter) His Noble Zeal for the Good of us in particular, and Europe in general, ſurmounting all thoſe Difficulties: […]

   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “The doctor exults in his victory. They set out for Rotterdam, where they are entertained by two Dutch gentlemen in a yacht, which is overturned in the Maes, to the manifest hazard of the painter’s life. They spend the evening with their entertainers, and next day visit a cabinet of curiosities.”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 254:

     [H]e ordered his ſervants to pack up ſome cloaths and linnen in a portmanteau; and in the morning embarked, with his governor, in the Treckſkuyt, for the Hague, whither he pretended to be called by ſome urgent occaſion, leaving his fellow-travellers to make his apology to their friends; and aſſuring them, that he would not proceed for Amſterdam, without their ſociety. He arrived at the Hague in the forenoon, and dined at an ordinary frequented by officers and people of faſhion; […]

   • 1788 May 23, “Copy of the Treaty of Defensive Alliance with Holland”, in [William Cobbett], editor, The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. […], volume XXVII, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, […] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; [et al.], published 1816, →OCLC, column 553:

     Mr. Pitt [i.e., William Pitt the Younger] presented, by his Majesty's command, a copy of the defensive alliance between his Majesty and the States General of the United Provinces, signed at the Hague, the 15th of April 1788; and translation.

   • 1797 April 16, J[ohn] S[key] Eustace, Letters on the Emancipation & Preservation of the United Provinces, to John De Witt, Esquire; with Lessons of Humanity, Addressed to Nicholas Van Staphorst: Written from Basil, in the Year 1794, Rotterdam: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 91:

     At this period, I had never been at Rotterdam or the Hague—which must sufficiently attest the wilful malignity of those by whom this report was sent forth from hence. As a General Officer, who had voluntarily retired from the most distinguished Army on Earth, I could have no motive of pride or concealment for putting on the title of an Admiral—in a Navy which has never existed: besides, the American minister was then at the Hague, so that any attempt to figure under a borrowed or supposed character, could only have originated in folly—and must have entailed immediate and eternal disgrace on the actor.

   • 1872 January, Junius Henri Browne, “Holland and the Hollanders”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XLIV, number CCLX, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 176:

     The fishermen convey their fish to the Hague in carts drawn by dogs (the animals are large and strong); and when they have completed their sales, return home in the empty carts drawn by their canine steeds.

   • 1881, The National Temperance League's annual, page 39:

     Side by side with the teetotal society, there is, at the Hague, a Neerlandish Society for the Prohibition of Strong Drinks, whose President—Heer J. L. de Jonge—described himself as a nephalist.

   • 1895 June 22, “Anecdotal Europe. By the Author of ‘An Englishman in Paris.’”, in The Illustrated London News, volume CVI, number 2931, London, page 774, column 2:

     I went to a concert in the Zoological Gardens at the Hague, and thence to supper at one of the principal cafés.

   • 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN, page 19:

     It was as if Belonging lay in some ivory-inlaid credenza in the Hague, waiting to be opened before expiration date.

   • 2001 July 7, Ian Black, quoting André Tremblay, “Defenders emerge for Milosevic”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     "I'm going to the Hague to see Mr Milosevic at his request," he told CBC radio before leaving Canada. "All of us feel he's being railroaded and used as a scapegoat for Nato's attack on Yugoslavia.

See also

• Hague Bar