maidmarian

English

Etymology

maid + Marian, perhaps relating to the Virgin Mary.

Noun

maidmarian (plural maidmarians)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of dance.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir W. Temple to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for maidmarian in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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