Queans

Cataphracts and drudges and queans and drabs threw armor and coins and seashell trinkets into the cart. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

So that ere we die, quoth the carle who was speaking, we look to see many grandchildren, and shall have some stout carles and queans here. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I replied again, I knew not the house; but I perceived, on a sudden, by the naked queans, that I was now come into a bawdy-house, and then too late I began to curse the treachery of this old jade. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But amidst the said greensward was a goodly flock of sheep that had been but of late washed for the shearing, and along with the sheep four folk, two carles and two queans, all of them in their first youth, not one by seeming of over a score and two of summers. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Amongst the Babylonians, it was the custom of some lascivious queans to dance frisking in that fashion, saith Curtius lib. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And she turned to Arthur, who came forth and said: Lady, I have heard thee, and herein would we have thee help us: There were erst six fellows of us, three caries and three queans, to whom was added this sweetling here; but one of them, to wit the Golden Knight, was slain, and for the rest ... ❋ Unknown (2007)

Reddened Viridis again; but Atra spake, and she also blushed somewhat, though she smiled: Those whom we love, and who love us, be not queans, but carles; neither be they of our blood, but aliens, till love overcometh them and causeth them to long to be of one flesh with us; and their longing is beyond measure, and they desire our bodies, which they deem far fairer than belike they be. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There are stout yeomen and chamber-queans in the house, enow to play the part of ❋ Unknown (2004)

O what an evaporation wherewith to bewray the masks or mufflers of young mangy queans. ❋ Unknown (2002)

With this apparition, of which I took only a very rapid observation through my half-closed eyelids, I was greatly astonished; for she was an exact resemblance to those bold Egyptian queans who were at first called Bohemians, but are nothing better than thieves and vagabonds, if indeed they be not the chosen people of the prince of darkness himself. ❋ Various (N/A)

On that he shook them off, and shouldered his way through that heterogeneous throng that was composed of bustling traders of several nations -- English, French, and Dutch -- of planters and of seamen of various degrees, of buccaneers who were fruit-selling half-castes, negro slaves, some doll-tearsheets and dunghill-queans from the Old World, and all the other types of the human family that converted the quays of Cayona into a disreputable image of ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

Now Tam, O Tam! had thae been queans, [those, girls] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

'Cicely,' he answered highly, 'you know much of capons and beeves, but there are queens that are none and do not queen it, and queans that are no queens and queen it.' ❋ Ford Madox Ford (1906)

"Know your betters and keep your greasy hands for the sluttish queans of Southwark streets!" ❋ Harold Steele MacKaye (1897)

I hae seen lassies, the daft queans, that would lowp and dance a winter's nicht, and still be lowping and dancing when the winter's day cam in. ❋ Unknown (1893)

They were not queens, as the astonishing Hale would have it, but they certainly were queans. ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

All the beauties of art, this man thought, were exclusively for him and his precious company of lisping exquisites and giggling, mincing queans. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

I thought that going on that [cruise] would [be cool], but when I got there, I saw so many guys in queans that I just gave my [ticket] away. ❋ Harry W. (2009)

Kit [Marlowe] was [Shakespeare's] [quean]. ❋ Yadswyver (2003)

[Quean] [Hillary] said nothing [important] again today. ❋ Cap'n Bullmoose (2005)