Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In English legend, the sweetheart of Robin Hood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, the queen of the May, one of the characters in the old morris-dance, often a man in woman's clothes.
- noun A kind of dance; a morris-dance or Moorish dance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.
- noun A kind of dance.
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Examples
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The 10th cricket World Cup, to be heralded by Bryan Adams fawning over Maid Marian at the opening ceremony in Dhaka, has no similar peak to overshadow it.
Cricket World Cup needs classic moments – not Bryan Adams – to be a hit | Rob Bagchi 2011
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In a paper called 'The Forest Queen' Knight discussed the idea, in passing, that since Maid Marian did so little in most versions of the story, perhaps there was a way of seeing all the repetitive male bonding in the adventures as a saga of homosexual values.
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Sir Ridley Scott has asked for a further $8m from his backer, Universal Films, to add an extra dimension to his untitled Robin Hood venture starring Russell Crowe in the lead role and Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian.
Ridley Scott's Robin Hood Will NOT Be Going 3D - Updated « FirstShowing.net 2010
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In fact, there is no Maid Marian at all in the first surviving evidence of the Robin Hood myth from the 14th century.
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In the late 1980s, the BBC children's TV series Maid Marian and her Merry Men took the bold step of making her the leader of the pack, ruling over a foolish Robin who was kept on as a figurehead.
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Musician, fine artist and 3d-modeler Art Laxness (aka Will Segerman) is releasing five full-perm sculpted prim Noobs into the wild today, as well as a pack of interchangeable and amusing modifiable heads: Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Maid Marian, and a couple of your more basic noobs (read: blank expressions).
Archive 2009-05-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009
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She definitely has the long, flowing dark red hair that Maid Marian is known for.
Russell Crowe & Cate Blanchett in Official Robin Hood Photos « FirstShowing.net 2009
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Musician, fine artist and 3d-modeler Art Laxness (aka Will Segerman) is releasing five full-perm sculpted prim Noobs into the wild today, as well as a pack of interchangeable and amusing modifiable heads: Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Maid Marian, and a couple of your more basic noobs (read: blank expressions).
Free nOObs for all! Art Laxness releases new versions including mix-and-match heads Bettina Tizzy 2009
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Nor is this "Robin Hood" going to be caught with the politically incorrect attitude toward women: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's Maid Marian is a feisty, take-charge aristocrat, and Little John's wife, Sarah, isn't just a whiz at childbearing, she's no slouch on the battlefield.
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If Helene Bonham Carter is playing Maid Marian, consider me out.
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