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plural queanes
Archaic spelling of quean. quotations examples
Downe with this litle queane, that hath at me such spite, Saue you from hir maister, it is a very sprite.
1504, Nicholas Udall, Roister Doister
You shall finde it no otherwise my sister, but that either this cursed queane hath invented a great lie, or else that she never saw the shape of her husband.
1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse
She cals her barren Jade, / Base Queane, and riv’ld Witch […]
1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 3 p. 42