maidmarian

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See also: Maid Marian

English

Etymology

maid +‎ Marian, perhaps relating to the Virgin Mary.

Noun

maidmarian (plural maidmarians)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of dance.
    • c. 1673, William Temple, An essay upon the advancement of trade in Ireland:
      ten men who danced a maid Marian

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for maidmarian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)