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 A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

The said wardens, both carle and quean, were goodly folk of middle age, stalwart, and kind of face.

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William

And this mad quean, after cracking like a pen-gun, and skirling like a pea-hen for the haill night, behoves just to hae hadden her tongue when her clavers might have dune some gude!

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, 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

Oh, she was a canty quean, An' weel could dance the Hieland walloch!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles