Lady
The word lady is a polite term for a woman, specifically the female equivalent to, or spouse of, a lord or gentleman, and in many contexts a term for any adult woman. Once relating specifically to women of high social class or status, over the last 300 years it has spread to embrace all adult women, though in some contexts may still be used to evoke a concept of "ladylike" standards of behaviour.
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Famous quotes containing the word lady:
“Sweet Suffolk Owl, so trimly dight
With feathers, like a lady bright,
Thou sing’st alone, sitting by night,
Te whit! Te whoo! Te whit! To whit!”
—Thomas Vautor (fl. c. 1590?)
“Night makes no difference ‘twixt the Priest and Clerk;
Joan as my Lady is as good i’th’dark.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“A lady of a “certain age,” which means
Certainly aged.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)