maistress

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Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

maistress

  1. Alternative form of maistresse
    • c. 1440, Charles d'Orleans, Eleanor P. Hammond (editor), "Go forth my heart" in English Verse from Chaucer to Surrey; republished 1927; Duke U. P.; p. 214-232
      I must as a hertless body
      Abide alone in hevyness,
      And ye shal do wel with your maistress
      In plesans glad and mery.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)