"lemman" meaning in Middle English

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          "english": "There truly is very little difference between a wife of honourable rank if she is faithless in how she deals with her body,\nand a penniless woman without rank, except that if they both behave badly then, because of the gentlewoman's rank,\npeople call her his lady love, but call the poor woman his slut or his leman.",
          "ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Manciples Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xcix, recto:",
          "text": "There is but litel difference truely\nBetwyxt a wyfe, that is of hye degre\nIf of her body dishoneſt ſhe be\nAnd a poore wenche, other than this\nIf it ſo be they werke bothe amys\nBut for the gentyl is in eſtate aboue\nShe ſhal be called his lady and his loue\nAnd for that tother is a poore woman\nShe ſhal be called his wench, or his lemmã [...]",
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          "ref": "1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:",
          "text": "Thenne within an houre there came the knyghte to whome the pauelione ought\nAnd he wende that his lemā had layne in that bedde\nand soo he laid hym doune besyde syr Launcelot\nand toke hym in his armes and beganne to kysse hym\nAnd whanne syre launcelot felte a rough berd kyssyng hym\nhe starte oute of the bedde lyghtely\nand the other knyȝt after hym\nand eyther of hem gate their swerdes in theire handes",
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        "leman (a lover or sweetheart, especially a secret lover or mistress; a paramour)"
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          "lover",
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          "sweetheart",
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          "mistress",
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        {
          "word": "lemon"
        },
        {
          "word": "limman"
        },
        {
          "word": "lefmon"
        },
        {
          "word": "leofmon"
        },
        {
          "word": "leveman"
        }
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          "text": "Thenne within an houre there came the knyghte to whome the pauelione ought\nAnd he wende that his lemā had layne in that bedde\nand soo he laid hym doune besyde syr Launcelot\nand toke hym in his armes and beganne to kysse hym\nAnd whanne syre launcelot felte a rough berd kyssyng hym\nhe starte oute of the bedde lyghtely\nand the other knyȝt after hym\nand eyther of hem gate their swerdes in theire handes",
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