quean
Example Sentences
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She could coax you to the buying like a Cumnock quean, and fleece you in the selling like the cadgers o' Kincardine.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
Thinks the false quean by such a sleight, that chill my nee'le lack?
From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Mr. S. Mr. of Art
For queen is the phonetic equivalent of AS. cwén, Goth. kwēns, whereas quean represents AS. cwĕne, Goth. kwĭno.
From A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty!
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Gulbeyaz was an empress, but had been Perhaps as wretched if a peasants quean.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
