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Lords and Ladies

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Lords´ and La´dies
n.1.(Bot.) The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), - those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.
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She went on peeling the lords and ladies till Clare, regarding for a moment the wave-like curl of her lashes as they dropped with her bent gaze on her soft cheek, lingeringly went away.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
There was some sense in those matters; but as the parson told us last Sunday, nobody believes in the devil now-a-days; and here you bring about a parcel of puppets drest up like lords and ladies, only to turn the heads of poor country wenches; and when their heads are once turned topsy-turvy, no wonder everything else is so.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
For two or three centuries the romances were to the lords and ladies, and to the wealthier citizens of the towns, much what novels are to the reading public of our own day.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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