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quean (kwiːn) Forms: 1, 3 cwene, (1 cwyne), 3–6 quene, (5 qw-), 4–5 quen, queyne, 5 qw-, queyn, 4–6 queine, 7 queene, 7–8 queen, (8 north. whein); 6–7 queane, (8 quane, 8–9 north. whean), 6– quean; 8–9 Sc. quine. [OE. cwene wk. fem. = OS. quena (MDu. quene, Du. kween a barren cow), OHG. quina, quena...
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The Sable Quean
In rage, the Sable Quean stabs the young otter with a poisoned blade she wears in a phial about her neck, slaying him. It uses material from the Redwall Wiki article The Sable Quean.
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Cutting Ball
His sister, Em, or Emma, was a prostitute, "a sorry ragged quean", who according to various reports was the mistress of the clown Richard Tarlton and
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Stichill
He married a widow, daughter and heiress of a rich Jamaican; but deserted her within a year because, according to one account ' she's a witch, a quean, an old cozening Quean'. ( The Merry Wives of Windsor, IV.
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whear
wheale, whealke, wheam, whean, wheang, whear see weal, wheel, whelk, queme, quean, wheen, whang, where.
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Cuckquean
The term is derived from Early Modern English dating back to AD 1562 and is composed of the terms cuck "someone whose partner is unfaithful" and quean
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quine
▪ I. † quine, a. Bot. Obs. rare—1. [f. L. quīnī five by five.] Arranged in fives.1760 [see quatern a.].▪ II. quine obs. f. coin n. and v.; coyn, quince; quoin; whine, whence; also Sc. f. quean.
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Elena Miramova
Later roles
Despite the above concerns, she was next cast as Theodora in the comedy Theodora, the Quean (the word "quean" meaning "harlot"), which had
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flaysome
fleysome, flaysome, a. dial. (ˈfleɪsəm) [f. flay n. + -some.] Frightful, dreadful.1790 A. Wilson Ep. to Picken Poet. Wks. (1846) 106 He got on his fleesome cowl. 1848 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights xxxiii. 266 Yon flaysome graceless quean. 1891 Atkinson Last Giant-Killers 150 Such flaysome, ghostlike b...
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Massachusetts Route 53
The name comes from Anne Whiton, a local tavern owner who in the mid-1700s, along with her daughters, had an "unsavory reputation" and was called quean
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cotquean
† cotquean Obs. (ˈkɒtkwiːn) Also 6 cote- cott-, 6–8 cot-. [f. cot + quean ‘woman’, esp. as a depreciatory term. The first element is apparently cot n.1, cote n.1 in the sense ‘mean house, hut’: the original meaning being thus ‘housewife of a labourer's cot’. Thence the transition is easy on the one ...
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coyn
▪ I. † coyn, coyne, n. Obs. Forms: 4 coyn, 5 coyne, quoyne, 6 ? quyne. [a. OF. cooin, later coin, in mod.F. coing (with g always mute) = Pr. codoing:—L. cotōneum, var. of cydōnium quince, f. cydōnius adj. ‘of Cydōnia,’ Gr. κυδωνία, the town of Canea in Crete; thence κυδώνιον µῆλον, cydōnium mālum, C...
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