quean
Example Sentences
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Wench meant at first nothing worse than girl or daughter, quean than woman, hussy than housewife; even woman is generally felt to be half-slighting.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
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
"May be he is her coosin; but coosins are nae that sib that a weedow is to be hailed aboot jist ane as though she were ony quean at a fair."
From The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
My friends, let me tell you that this is the first pleasant hour, that spiteful quean, Fate, has bestowed upon me for the last three years.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
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
