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Word: mayden (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...ELIZABETH BROUGHTON : "She lost her Mayden-head to a poor young fellow ... in 1660 . . . and away she gott to London, and did sett up for her selfe. She was a most exquisite beautie, as finely shaped as Nature could frame . . . and her price was very deare . . . Richard, Earle of Dorset, kept her [but] at last she grew common and infamous and gott the Pox, of which she died ... I remember thus much of an old song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master Gossipmonger | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

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