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May-lady en · NOUN
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(archaic, historical) A May Queen.
Some light huswife belike, that was dressed like a may lady, and as most of our gentlewomen are.
, III.2.2.iiiThe jolly Satyres, full of fresh delight, / Came dauncing forth, and with them nimbly ledd / Faire Hellenore with girlonds all bespredd, / Whom their May-lady they had newly made […].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
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