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moss-maidens

moss-maidens is the plural of moss-maiden.

Meaning of moss-maiden

Noun

moss-maiden (plural moss-maidens)

  1. (Germanic) A young female of the moss-folk.
    • Urselberg became her retreat as the good fairy mother; but the attractions of herself and her moss-maidens, which the Church wished to borrow, were taken on a long voyage to Rome, and there transmuted to St. Ursula and her 11,000 Virgins.1881, Moncure Daniel Conway, Demonology and Devil-Lore, volume II, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 379

Questions about moss-maidens

What is moss-maidens the plural of?
Moss-maidens is the plural of moss-maiden.

Words near moss-maidens in the dictionary

  1. moss-folk
  2. moss-grown
  3. moss-hag
  4. moss-hags
  5. moss-maiden
  6. moss-maidens
  7. moss-people
  8. moss-trooper
  9. moss-troopers
  10. moss-trooping
  11. moss-woman

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