quean

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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

Ane wad think it's true," quoth Cuddie; "for I hae aye had some carline or quean or another to gar me gang their gate instead o' my ain.

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

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

I don't set store by clothes, meself; but a fine han'some quean they make of ye.

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Gulbeyaz was an empress, but had been Perhaps as wretched if a peasants quean.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley