The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kern baby \Kern baby\ A doll or image decorated with corn (grain) flowers, etc., carried in the festivals of a kern, or harvest-home. Called also harvest queen.
Usage examples of "harvest queen".
She picked it up and smoothed down the folds of the last gown they'd sewn for it, a dainty creation for Shandi on the occasion of her being chosen Harvest Queen last fall.
She picked it up and smoothed down the folds of the last gown theyd sewn for it, a dainty creation for Shandi on the occasion of her being chosen Harvest Queen last fall.
We moved on and I saw that Larasion was carved in red-brown heartwood and crowned with a garland of wheat, styled Mahladin, Harvest Queen.
He'd searched among half the sculptors in Tormalin before fixing on one he felt both skilled and pious enough to craft the Harvest Queen's ripely beautiful figure, her serene and mature face crowned with wheat, autumn fruits spilling from her cupped hands.