swain
IPA: swˈeɪn
noun
- (obsolete) A young man or boy in service; a servant.
- (obsolete) A knight's servant; an attendant.
- (archaic) A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic.
- (poetic) A rural lover; a male sweetheart in a pastoral setting.
- A surname.
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Examples of "swain" in Sentences
- Thanks for all the good work Swain.
- Several spellings of the last name include Swain.
- A internet nickname for the photographer Tom Swain.
- Buffer and Swain stopped him from falling overboard.
- Swain later served as a high school basketball coach.
- She and Diana Swain hosted the program on a rotational basis.
- Swain penned detailed accounts of his transcontinental journey.
- An agreement allows Swain to write the first screenplay adaptation.
- Roger Swain is no longer the science editor of Horticulture magazine.
- The novel is in the form of an autobiography of Dr. Wilbur Daffodil 11 Swain.
- I do have to say that I loved the photo of the young lady with her 'swain' in his kilt..very very classy.
- 'I protest,' cried Sir Sedley to Camilla, tis your favourite swain from the Northwick assembly! wafted on some zephyr of Hope, he has pursued you to Tunbridge.
- She was in a bitter state of trepidation, or she would have thought twice before she touched a nerve of the enamoured lady, as she knew she did in calling her swain a poor brute, and did again by pertinaciously pursuing:
- Watteau-like figures, -- tall damsels in slim waists and with spread enough of skirt for a modern ballroom, with bowing, reclining, or musical swains of what everybody calls the "conventional" sort, -- that is, the swain adapted to genteel society rather than to a literal sheep-compelling existence.
- 'You lump the gold and make it current coin; -- says the blushing bride, who ought not to have delivered herself so boldly, but she had forgotten her bashful part and spoilt the scene, though, luckily for the damsel, her swain was a lover of nature, and finding her at full charge, named the very next day of the year, and held her to it, like the complimentary tyrant he was.'
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