"ladyling" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ladylings [plural]
Etymology: From lady + -ling. Compare lordling. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|lady|ling}} lady + -ling, {{m|en|lordling}} lordling Head templates: {{en-noun}} ladyling (plural ladylings)
  1. A young, petite, or unimportant lady.
    Sense id: en-ladyling-en-noun-tIU5L5AI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ling

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1803, John Bristed, The adviser",
          "text": "I now found what was the stimulus proper to excite and arouse fashionable people, such as lordlings and ladylings, for of both had I specimens, was a row of card-tables, to which, after swallowing a cup of tea, [...]",
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          "text": "All the rest of the place is detestable. But none of these once favourite receptacles have been blest by violent overflows — at least, of visiters — this year. No ; — my lord and my lady, and my lordling and my ladyling, all go abroad: [...]",
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          "ref": "1904, Mosher's magazine",
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