Leman

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  • noun. A sweetheart; a lover.
  • noun. A mistress.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who is dear; a person beloved.
  • noun. A sweetheart of either sex; a gallant or a mistress: often in a bad sense; a paramour.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One beloved; a lover, a sweetheart of either sex (especially a secret lover, gallant, or mistress).
  • noun. A paramour.
  • Word Usage
    "For the truth of the history is, that Master Elisabat, of whom the madman spoke, was very prudent, and a man of a sound judgment, and served the queen as her tutor and physician; but to think that she was his leman is a madness worthy the severest punishment; and to the end thou mayst see that Cardenio knew not what he said, thou must understand that when he spoke it he then was wholly beside himself."
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