lady : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a lady fern with deeply cut leaf segments; found in the Rocky Mountains
  Athyrium distentifolium.
  

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• noun brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States
  Ovalipes ocellatus; American lady crab; calico crab.
  

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• noun a homeless woman who carries all her possessions with her in shopping bags
  

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• noun often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California
  Cypripedium californicum.
  

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• noun a human female employed to do housework
  char; cleaning woman; woman; charwoman.
  
  • the char will clean the carpet
  • I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write

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• noun clusters of several short stems each having 2 broad leaves and 2-4 drooping brownish to greenish flowers with pouches mottled with purple; British Columbia to central California and northern Colorado
  Cypripedium fasciculatum.
  

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• noun pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
  common lady's-slipper; Cypripedium reginae; showy lady slipper; Cypripedium album.
  

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• noun any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers; often grown as houseplants
  butterfly plant; oncidium; butterfly orchid.
  

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• noun crab of the English coasts
  Portunus puber.
  

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• noun European orchid having shorter racemes of strongly spiraling snow-white flowers
  Spiranthes spiralis.
  

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• noun the leading woman in an art or profession
  
• noun the wife of a chief executive
  

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• noun orchid having dense clusters of gently spiraling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood; western North America
  Spiranthes romanzoffiana.
  

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• noun British stateswoman; first woman to serve as Prime Minister (born in 1925)
  Margaret Thatcher; Margaret Hilda Thatcher; Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven; Thatcher.
  

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La"dies' ear`drops`

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1. (Bot.) The small-flowered Fuchsia (F. coccinea), and other closely related species.

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• noun a man who takes advantage of women
  ladies' man; seducer.
  

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• a man who affects the society of ladies.

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• noun a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building
  powder room.
  

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• noun any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
  slipper orchid; ladies' slipper; lady's slipper.
  

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• noun North American perennial propagated by means of runners
  ladies' tobacco; Antennaria plantaginifolia.
  

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• noun an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowers
  ladies' tresses.
  

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La"dy's tra"ces, La"dies' tress"es (Also<

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• Ladies' tresses

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1. (Bot.) A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.

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• noun erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers
  lady's-eardrop; Fuchsia coccinea; ladies'-eardrops; ladies'-eardrop.
  

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• noun erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers
  lady's-eardrop; Fuchsia coccinea; ladies'-eardrops; ladies'-eardrop.
  

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• an altar in a lady chapel. Shipley.

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• noun small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests
  ladybug; ladybird beetle; ladybeetle; ladybird.
  

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• noun a small chapel in a church; dedicated to the Virgin Mary
  

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• a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

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• the court of a lady of the manor.

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• noun brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States
  Ovalipes ocellatus; American lady crab; calico crab.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a handsomely spotted swimming crab (Platyonichus ocellatus) very common on the sandy shores of the Atlantic coast of the United States.

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• noun a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
  Annunciation Day; March 25; Annunciation.
  

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• noun English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles; her death in an automobile accident in Paris produced intense national mourning (1961-1997)
  Diana; Princess Diana; Princess of Wales.
  

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• noun English beauty who was the mistress of Admiral Nelson (1765-1815)
  Hamilton; Amy Lyon.
  

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• noun most widely grown fern of the genus Athyrium for its delicate foliage
  Athyrium filix-femina.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Female fern, under Female, and Illust. of Fern.

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• noun a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
  girlfriend; girl.
  
  • his girlfriend kicked him out

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• noun according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily; the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080)
  Godiva.
  

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• a lady of the queen's household, appointed to wait upon or attend the queen.

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• noun Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
  Grey.
  

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• noun a man who takes advantage of women
  ladies' man; seducer.
  

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• a Mass said in honor of the Virgin Mary. Shipley.

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• noun a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
  fancy woman; woman of the street; working girl; bawd; cocotte; lady of pleasure; prostitute; harlot; cyprian; whore; tart.
  

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• noun a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income
  woman of the house; homemaker; housewife.
  

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• a lady having jurisdiction of a manor; also, the wife of a manor lord.

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• noun any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants
  

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• noun British actress (born in Canada) (1898-1989)
  Lillie; Beatrice Lillie.
  

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• noun Eurasian tulip with small flowers blotched at the base
  Tulipa clusiana; candlestick tulip.
  

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• noun English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910)
  Nightingale; Florence Nightingale.
  

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La"dy's bed"straw`

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1. (Bot.) The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels.

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La"dy's bow"er

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1. (Bot.) A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba). ✍ This term is sometimes applied to other plants of the same genus.

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La"dy's comb"

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1. (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely resembling a comb.

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La"dy's cush"ion

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1. (Bot.) An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).

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• noun North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil
  touch-me-not; celandine; orange balsam; jewelweed; Impatiens capensis.
  

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La"dy's fin"ger

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1. pl. (Bot.) The kidney vetch.
2. (Cookery) A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.
3. A long, slender variety of the potato.
4. (Zoöl.) One of the branchiæ of the lobster.

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La"dy's gar"ters

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1. (Bot.) Ribbon grass.

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La"dy's hair"

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1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass.

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• noun perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America
  reed canary grass; ribbon grass; Phalaris arundinacea; gardener's garters.
  

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La"dy's la"ces

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1. (Bot.) A slender climbing plant; dodder.

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• noun widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers
  nodding onion; Allium cernuum; nodding wild onion.
  

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La"dy's look"ing-glass`

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1. (Bot.) See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.

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• noun a maid who is a lady's personal attendant
  

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• a maidservant who dresses and waits upon a lady. Thackeray.

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La"dy's man"tle

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1. (Bot.) A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.

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La"dy's seal"

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1. (Bot.) (a) The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum). (b) The black bryony (Tamus communis).

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• noun any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
  slipper orchid; ladies' slipper; lady's slipper.
  

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La"dy's slip"per

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1. (Bot.) Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (Impatiens Balsamina).

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• noun a bitter cress of Europe and America
  cuckooflower; Cardamine pratensis; meadow cress; cuckoo flower.
  

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La"dy's smock"

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1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower.

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La"dy's thim"ble

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1. (Bot.) The harebell.

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• noun tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America
  Silybum marianum; milk thistle; holy thistle; lady's thistle; blessed thistle.
  

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La"dy's thumb"

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1. (Bot.) An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.

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• noun North American perennial propagated by means of runners
  ladies' tobacco; Antennaria plantaginifolia.
  

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La"dy's tra"ces, La"dies' tress"es (Also<

• Lady's traces
• Ladies' tresses

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1. (Bot.) A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.

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• noun an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowers
  ladies' tresses.
  

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• noun erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers
  lady's-eardrop; Fuchsia coccinea; ladies'-eardrops; ladies'-eardrop.
  

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• noun erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers
  lady's-eardrop; Fuchsia coccinea; ladies'-eardrops; ladies'-eardrop.
  

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• noun tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
  okra; Abelmoschus esculentus; Hibiscus esculentus; okra plant; gumbo.
  

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• noun a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess
  

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La"dy-kill`er noun

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1. A gallant who captivates the hearts of women. "A renowned dandy and lady-killer." Blackw. Mag.

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La"dy-kill`ing noun

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1. The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women.

   Better for the sake of womankind that this dangerous dog should leave off lady-killing. Thackeray.

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• noun West Indian shrub with fragrant showy yellowish-white flowers
  Brunfelsia americana.
  

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• noun any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
  slipper orchid; ladies' slipper; lady's slipper.
  

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• noun plant of eastern and central North America having slightly fragrant purple-marked greenish-yellow flowers
  Cypripedium calceolus pubescens.
  

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• noun actress who plays the leading female role
  

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• noun a woman hired to help children cross a road safely near a school
  lollipop woman.
  

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Lords" and La"dies

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

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• noun common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum
  cuckoopint; jack-in-the-pulpit; Arum maculatum.
  

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• the queen or lady of May, in old May games.

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• noun leafy plant having a few stems in a clump with 1 white and dull purple flower in each upper leaf axil; Alaska to northern California and Wyoming
  Cypripedium montanum.
  

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• noun bulbous autumn-flowering herb with white, purple or lavender-and-white flowers; native to western and central Europe
  autumn crocus; Colchicum autumnale; meadow saffron.
  
• noun amaryllis of South Africa often cultivated for its fragrant white or rose flowers
  belladonna lily; Amaryllis belladonna.
  

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• noun your own wife
  
  • meet my old lady

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• (Zoöl.), a large European noctuid moth (Mormo maura).

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• noun a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the 12th century
  Carmelite order.
  

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• the Virgin Mary.

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• noun common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and Europe and Asia
  Galium verum; yellow cleavers; yellow bedstraw.
  

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• noun tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America
  Silybum marianum; milk thistle; holy thistle; lady's thistle; blessed thistle.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly.

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• noun a cocktail made of gin and brandy with lemon juice and grenadine shaken with an egg white and ice
  

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• (Bot.), a low American biennial plant (Houstonia cærulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas which are pale blue with a yellowish center; also called bluets, and little innocents.

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• (Bot.), the fennel flower (Nigella Damascena).

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• noun orchid of northern North America having a brownish-green flower and red-and-white lip suggestive of a ram's head
  Cypripedium arietinum; ram's-head.
  

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• noun pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
  common lady's-slipper; Cypripedium reginae; showy lady slipper; Cypripedium album.
  

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• noun pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
  common lady's-slipper; Cypripedium reginae; showy lady slipper; Cypripedium album.
  

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• noun Chinese lady palm with more slender stems and finer sheath fibers than Rhapis excelsa
  Rhapis humilis; reed rhapis.
  

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• noun a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
  fancy woman; woman of the street; working girl; bawd; cocotte; lady of pleasure; prostitute; harlot; cyprian; whore; tart.
  

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• (Theater), an actress who usually fills such parts as require only a ladylike appearance on the stage. Cant

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• noun similar to Spiranthes romanzoffiana; States
  Spiranthes porrifolia.
  

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• noun maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan
  Cypripedium calceolus; yellow lady's slipper; Cypripedium parviflorum.
  

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• noun maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan
  Cypripedium calceolus; yellow lady's slipper; Cypripedium parviflorum.
  

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• noun a young woman
  young woman; fille; missy; girl; miss.
  
  • a young lady of 18

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