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Maidmarian

Maidmarian \Maid`ma"ri*an\, n. [Maid + Marian, relating to Mary, or the Virgin Mary.]

  1. The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

  2. A kind of dance.
    --Sir W. Temple.

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maidmarian

n. (context obsolete English) A kind of dance.