Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A girl; a lass.
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Examples
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I know that he is a very amiable lad, and I do not know that she is not as amiable a laddess, but
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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Skills way beyond the usual, in another league to the local lad/laddess made good, or even the best of the best in certain cases.
British Blogs Urban Art by Paul Baines 2010
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Skills way beyond the usual, in another league to the local lad/laddess made good, or even the best of the best in certain cases.
British Blogs Urban Art by Paul Baines 2010
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They're nice people and will have a cuppa ready when your lad or laddess comes through the door to pick up the cheque.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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Lass is then posited as a contraction of laddess, itself formed from lad.
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‘laddess’, which however still survives in the contracted form of
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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