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Maidmarian

Maidmarian

1. The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

2. A kind of dance.

Origin: maid _ Marian, relating to Mary, or the virgin Mary.


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