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swainswain /sweɪn/ noun [countable] old use swainOrigin: 1500-1600 Old Norse sveinn ‘boy, servant’ - A baggy knee was enough to excite the swains.
- A young swain more virile and lusty than he?
- If you'd invented a string of lovelorn swains you'd have had to pay customer prices.
- It was my erstwhile swain, looking much the same as 10 years earlier.
- Must have every swain at her feet.
- Often has the aching brow of royalty resigned its crown, to be decked with the soothing chaplet of the shepherd swain.
a young man from the country who loves a woman |