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Definition of Queans
1. quean [n] - See also: quean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Queans
Literary usage of Queans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Now Tarn, О Tarn ! had there been queans A' plump and strapping in their teens.
... I was disturbed with some of the night-walking queans and swaggering ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1905)
"Amongst the Babylonians it was the custom of some lascivious queans to dance
frisking in that fashion, saith Curtius, lib. 5, and Sardus, de mor. gent. lib. ..."
3. The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the English by Giles Jacob (1719)
"... Mr. Lee's Rival Queens, or Tla Death ^/"ALEXANDER the Great, in a Farce,
call'd, T'he Rival queans; ..."
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