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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MAIDMARIAN

n.A dance; so called from a buffoon dressed like a man.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MAIDMARIAN

Maid `ma "ri *an, n. Etym: [Maid + Marian, relating to Mary, or the Virgin Mary. ]

 

1. 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.

 

2. A kind of dance. Sir W. Temple.