Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little lady: applied by Elizabethan writers, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form
Lakin , to the Virgin Mary.
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- noun A little
lady .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the meantime the young ladykin whom the solemn vowing concerned had lingered round the choir screen, as if fearing to enter, yet loth to go away.
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A diminutive form of this was _by our ladykin_ which was contracted into _by our lakin_.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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In the meantime the young ladykin whom the solemn vowing concerned had lingered round the choir screen, as if fearing to enter, yet loth to go away.
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884
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"I am ycleped J. Keyser -- I was born at Spring, hys Garden, My father toe make me ane clerke erst did essaye, But a fico for ye offis -- I spurn ye losels offeire; For I fain would be ane butcher by'r ladykin alwaye."
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869
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For I fain would be ane butcher by'r ladykin alwaye. "
Legends and Tales Bret Harte 1869
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