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(The). The mistress of the house. “Your good lady,” your wife. (See Goodman.) “My good woman” is a deprecatory address to an inferior; but “Is your good woman at home?” is quite respectful…Brewer's: White Ladies
[Les Dames Blanches ]. A species of fée in Normandy. They lurk in ravines, fords, bridges, and other narrow passes, and ask the passenger to dance. If…Barenaked Ladies Biography
Barenaked LadiesCanadian folk-rock group Steven Page and Ed Robertson established the band in 1998. They claim the band's name is meant to suggest youthful naivete and is not at all sexist.…Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy
(Encyclopedia) Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy, 1776–1839, English traveler. Leaving England in 1810, she traveled in the Levant, adopting Eastern male dress and a religion that was a composite of…Guadalupe Hidalgo
(Encyclopedia) Guadalupe HidalgoGuadalupe Hidalgogwäᵺäl&oomacr;ˈpā ēdälˈgō, wä– [key], shrine, central Mexico, in the Federal District. The basilica of Guadalupe containing the shrine of Our Lady…Lady of the Lake
(Encyclopedia) Lady of the Lake, in Arthurian legend, a misty, supernatural figure endowed with magic powers, who gave the sword Excalibur to King Arthur. She inhabited a castle in an underwater…Mary, the mother of Jesus
(Encyclopedia) Mary, in the Bible, mother of Jesus. Christian tradition reckons her the principal saint, naming her variously the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, and Mother of God (Gr., theotokos).…John Keats: To Some Ladies
by JohnKeatsCalidoreOn Receiving a Curious Shell, ...To Some Ladies What though while the wonders of nature exploring, I cannot your light, mazy footsteps attend; Nor listen to accents,…T.S. Eliot: Portrait of a Lady, I
by T. S. Eliot III Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon You have the scene arrange itself--as it will seem to do-- With "I have saved this afternoon for you"; And four wax…Trending
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