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maidmarian

maidmarian


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Maidmarian  \Maid`ma"ri*an\,  n.  [Maid  +  Marian,  relating  to  Mary, 
  or  the  Virgin  Mary.] 
  1.  The  lady  of  the  May  games;  one  of  the  characters  in  a 
  morris  dance;  a  May  queen.  Afterward,  a  grotesque 
  character  personated  in  sports  and  buffoonery  by  a  man  in 
  woman's  clothes. 
 
  2.  A  kind  of  dance.  --Sir  W.  Temple.