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Maid child

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A young female human; a girl. archaic

    "But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days."

Etymology

From Middle English mayde child, maide child, maide-child, maide childe, maidechilde, mayde childe, mayde-chyld, maydechylde. Compare Middle English maidenchild, from Old English mæġdenċild.

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