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▪ I. loathly, a. (ˈləʊðlɪ) Forms: 1 láðlic, 2–3 loðlic, 3 lad-, lað-, loð(e)liche, 3– 4 lod(e)lich(e, -like, -lych, loþely(ch, 4 lat-, laþ-, loþli, loth(e)-, loþliche, 4–6 lod(e)ly, loth(e)lie, -ly, (5 lathely, loodly, looþeli, lotly), 5–6 layth(e)- liche, -ly, 6 Sc. lathly, laitlie, -ye, 6– loathly...
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Loathly lady
The Loathly Lady offered to watch his greyhound and her new pups while he went hunting. References
External links
The Loathly Lady at the Camelot Project
The Loathly Lady at Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia
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European folklore
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Loathly lady - Wikipedia
The loathly lady ( Welsh: dynes gas, Motif D732 in Stith Thompson's motif index ), is a tale type commonly used in medieval literature, most famously in Geoffrey Chaucer 's The Wife of Bath's Tale. [1] The motif is that of a woman who appears unattractive (ugly, loathly) but undergoes a transformation upon being approached by a man in spite of ...
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Lugaid Loígde
The Five Lugaids and the Loathly Lady
See also
Lugaid (disambiguation)
Dáire
Lugh
Loathly Lady
Notes
References
Edel Bhreathnach and Kevin Murray
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unloathly
unˈloathly, adv. (un-1 11.)1844 Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile 2079 Softly and unlothly..We will draw you soothly Toward the Heavenly people.
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Selina Hastings (writer)
Hastings' books include Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (1985), Nancy Mitford (1986), The Singing Ringing Tree (1988), The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
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laidly
laidly, a. Now Sc. and arch. (with allusion to ballad use). (ˈleɪdlɪ) Also 4 laithly, 5 lathely, 6 laithlie, 7, 9 laidlie, 8 laily. [Northern var. of loathly.] Offensive, hideous, repulsive.a 1300 Cursor M. 2406 (Gött.) Sore i me drede, Þar we wend bi þis laithly lede. a 1400–50 Alexander 491 He..Le...
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The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea
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A young man, transformed into a laily (loathly, or loathsome) worm, tells his story: his father married an evil woman as his stepmother, and
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loathliness
loathliness (ˈləʊðlɪnɪs) [f. loathly a. + -ness.] The quality of being loathly; hatefulness, hideousness, loathsomeness. Now rare.1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 371 b/2, I shal cutte of my nose so that euery man shal hate me for my lothelynes. 1531 Elyot Gov. iii. xxv, The deformitie and lothelynes of vice....
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Rash promise
," promises an older woman (the proverbial "loathly lady") anything she desires if she can provide the answer (she desires to marry him).
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The Daughter Of King Under-Waves
It is a version of the tale of the loathly lady. This form of the tale appears in Hrólfr Kraki's saga and also in Child ballad 32, King Henry. Motifs
The loathly lady is a common motif, appearing in such tales as The Marriage of Sir Gawain.
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Tab
Tab, n.3 University slang. (tæb) [Short for Cantab.] A member of the University of Cambridge.1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister Street II. iii. iii. 555 He will get his blue next term and show the Tabs that he's a jolly good fellow. 1930 A. Alington Slowbags & Arethusa i. 4 Then the morning's play is discus...
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The Dragon Knight (novel)
The novel begins five months after the battle at Loathly Tower, which took place in The Dragon and the George.
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