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Laïs, n. Now rare.|ˈlaɪɪs|
Pl. Laïdes |ˈlaɪɪdiːz|.
[The name of either of two celebrated Greek courtesans of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.]
Used allusively of a beautiful and accomplished temptress.
1576Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. Cii, Lais leades a Ladies life alofte, And Lucrece lurkes, with sobre bashful grace. 1600Thynne Emblems xiii, Dame Lais is a puritane. 1605J. Sylvester Du Bartas's Devine Weekes 39 Like a Lais, whose unconstant Loue Doth euery day a thousand times remoue. 1665T. Herbert Trav. 317 The Amorosa's, or those of the order of Lais..be more sociable, have most freedome, and in this Region are not worst esteemed of. 1859G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 200 She on the bay, yonder, is Lais. Yonder goes Aspasia... Some of those dashing delightful creatures have covered themselves with shame, and their mothers with grief. 1967M. Ward Du Barry Inheritance xi. 174 The ‘revolutionary jury’..was asked to decide the fate of this Laïs, for whose shameful pleasures a despot had sacrificed the blood and treasures of his people. |