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Answer for the clue "Tennyson heroine ", 4 letters:
maud

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Word definitions for maud in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Old French Mahaut , from Medieval Latin Matilda from Germanic (compare Old High German Mahthilda ; see Matilda ).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A grey plaid once worn by shepherds in Scotland.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maud \Maud\, n. A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland.

Usage examples of maud.

Maud answered, and called to two men I had not noticed, addressing one as almoner and the other as chamberlain.

But Ruth had walked to the gate to see if Babbie was coming and, as Maud emerged from the shop, the two women came face to face.

Maud, did you notice Derek Burdon and that nice girl I was telling you about, Jenny Rainsford?

I stood, plucking at the fringes on the skirt, while Maud ran to her jewel box for a brooch, that she fastened to my bosom, tilting her head to see how it looked.

Maud and Beth volunteered their services and were so calm and deft that Doctor Gys was well pleased with them.

Maud Lowder, to whom it was new indeed and who had never heard anything remotely like it, quite cherished her, as a social resource, by reason of it.

If Queen Maud Land was mapped before it was covered by ice, the original cartography must have been done an extraordinarily long time ago.

With a grave elder-sisterly air she felt all over the baby-limbs, and when Maud set up an indignant cry, began hushing her with so quaint an imitation of motherliness, that we were all amused.

Nip and Tuck swing back into Seventh Avenue, and pop into the entrance of a small apartment house, and go tearing up the stairs to the first floor, and when we get there these bloodhounds are scratching vigorously at the door of Apartment B-2, and going woofle-woofle, and we are all greatly excited, indeed, but the door opens, and who is standing there but a doll by the name of Maud Milligan, who is well known to one and all as the ever-loving doll of Big Nig, the crap shooter, who is down in Hot Springs at this time taking the waters, or whatever it is guys take in Hot Springs.

Maud with which Lord Leakham had attempted to soothe the spasms of his peptic ulcer.

Lady Maud, relapsing rather prematurely into the language of the nursery.

Maud, who endeavoured to reward his tender assiduities by a smile, but could not.

Maud, however, without a hat of any sort, her long, luxuriant, silken, golden tresses covering her shoulders, and occasionally veiling her warm, rich cheek, was exercising with a battledore, keeping Little Smash, now increased in size to quite fourteen stone, rather actively employed as an assistant, whenever the exuberance of her own spirits caused her to throw the plaything beyond her reach.

Arkwright, or Maud, or Flo Aplin, or any of these Mayflower braggers begin to hold forth?

Half the county was there as Lady Maud strode through the pinetum with Mrs Forthby as her bridesmaid.