Queenward

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Towards a queen. not-comparable

    "The cloth was so large it covered both the form, and all the ground within the King’s travers, or large cloth of estate, “which was open both afore and behind, and the side to the queenward, and close at the wall, and it was all of the same purple velvet, embroidered with flower de lysys of gold.”"

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"The cloth was so large it covered both the form, and all the ground within the King’s travers, or large cloth of estate, “which was open both afore and behind, and the side to the queenward, and close at the wall, and it was all of the same purple velvet, embroidered with flower de lysys of gold.”"

Etymology

From queen + -ward.

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