Ladyling
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A young, petite, or unimportant lady.
"I now found what was the stimulus proper to excite and arouse fashionable people, such as lordlings and ladylings, for of both had I specimens, was a row of card-tables, to which, after swallowing a cup of tea, [...]"
Example
More examples"I now found what was the stimulus proper to excite and arouse fashionable people, such as lordlings and ladylings, for of both had I specimens, was a row of card-tables, to which, after swallowing a cup of tea, [...]"
Etymology
From lady + -ling. Compare lordling.
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