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lady abbess

lady abbess noun: a bawd, the mistress of a brothel.

Noun

lady abbess (plural lady abbesses)

  1. (euphemistic, obsolete, rare) A bawd, the mistress of a brothel.
    • That Lady Abbess of all secret sin. / Swears that she is so lean and ugly grown, / She will not pass with her for half a crown, / Yet Stamford's countess does admire her wit, / But likes it most because 'tis lewdly writ.ca 1670–80, ?, Description of a Poetress
    • The Lady Abbess took leave of her young Probationer, to dispatch some affairs of her own elsewhere; having promised to return next morning about the same Hour she had done that day.1683, Ferrante Pallavicino, The Whores Rhetorick, pages 128–129
    Synonyms:
    madam, abbess

Synonyms of lady abbess

Forms of lady abbess

plurallady abbesses

Questions about lady abbess

What does lady abbess mean?
Lady abbess means a bawd, the mistress of a brothel.
What part of speech is lady abbess?
Lady abbess is a noun.
What is the plural of lady abbess?
The plural of lady abbess is lady abbesses.

Words near lady abbess in the dictionary

  1. Ladukes
  2. laduma
  3. Ladwig
  4. Ladwigs
  5. lady
  6. lady abbess
  7. lady abbesses
  8. Lady altar
  9. Lady Amherst
  10. Lady Amherst's pheasant
  11. Lady Amherst's pheasants

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