quean

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For the bride was a stout household quean; her face painted with vermilion, and her person arrayed in uncouth embroidered garments. 

From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

"Whisky is gude eneugh for her," muttered Cuddie; "ane wadna hae thought that gude meal was sae scant amang them, when the quean threw sae muckle gude kail-brose scalding het about my lugs."

From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Bartlett, John

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 by Bartlett, John

Yet they knew us all the while, in their hearts, for what we are —Worst couple, rogue and quean, unhanged—search near and far!

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald