May-lady
noun1
Archaic, Historical A May Queen.
- The jolly Satyres, full of fresh delight, / Came dauncing forth, and with them nimbly ledd / Faire Hellenore with girlonds all bespredd, / Whom their May-lady they had newly made […].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Some light huswife belike, that was dressed like a may lady, and as most of our gentlewomen are., III.2.2.iii