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lords and ladies

Noun

Meaning

The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens. Jonathan Stroud

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come. William Butler Yeats

The lords and ladies pass a ruling That sons and girls go hand in land From good stock and the best breeding Paid for by the servile class. Paul Weller (singer)

The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.” Source: Internet

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