queans

Cataphracts and drudges and queans and drabs threw armor and coins and seashell trinkets into the cart.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Cataphracts and drudges and queans and drabs threw armor and coins and seashell trinkets into the cart.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Cataphracts and drudges and queans and drabs threw armor and coins and seashell trinkets into the cart.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

So that ere we die, quoth the carle who was speaking, we look to see many grandchildren, and shall have some stout carles and queans here.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

I replied again, I knew not the house; but I perceived, on a sudden, by the naked queans, that I was now come into a bawdy-house, and then too late I began to curse the treachery of this old jade.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

But amidst the said greensward was a goodly flock of sheep that had been but of late washed for the shearing, and along with the sheep four folk, two carles and two queans, all of them in their first youth, not one by seeming of over a score and two of summers.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Amongst the Babylonians, it was the custom of some lascivious queans to dance frisking in that fashion, saith Curtius lib.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And she turned to Arthur, who came forth and said: Lady, I have heard thee, and herein would we have thee help us: There were erst six fellows of us, three caries and three queans, to whom was added this sweetling here; but one of them, to wit the Golden Knight, was slain, and for the rest ...

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Reddened Viridis again; but Atra spake, and she also blushed somewhat, though she smiled: Those whom we love, and who love us, be not queans, but carles; neither be they of our blood, but aliens, till love overcometh them and causeth them to long to be of one flesh with us; and their longing is beyond measure, and they desire our bodies, which they deem far fairer than belike they be.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

There are stout yeomen and chamber-queans in the house, enow to play the part of

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004