Definition of "queans" []

• Plural form of quean. (noun)

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• "Cataphracts and drudges and queans and drabs threw armor and coins and seashell trinkets into the cart."
• "Amongst the Babylonians, it was the custom of some lascivious queans to dance frisking in that fashion, saith Curtius lib."
• "I replied again, I knew not the house; but I perceived, on a sudden, by the naked queans, that I was now come into a bawdy-house, and then too late I began to curse the treachery of this old jade."