21 November 2018
swain
[sweyn]
noun
1. a male admirer or lover.
2. a country lad.
3. a country gallant.
Origin of swain
Middle English, Old Norse
1150 before 1150; Middle English swein servant < Old Norse sveinn boy, servant; cognate with Old English swān
Related forms
swainish, adjective
swainishness, noun
underswain, noun
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Contemporary Examples
The more costly the musical ingredients, the greater the swain ‘s devotion!
Jane Journeys On
Ruth Comfort Mitchell
A swain touched then his lute, or whatever you may call it, to his Dulcinea.
The Lady and the Pirate
Emerson Hough
Her own swain was waiting for her, but not for that would she abjure the quest.
Country Neighbors
Alice Brown
Today’s quote
One of the benefits of being bi-cultural is simply awareness that how you live is not the only way.
– Ann Campanella
On this day
21 November 164BC – Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
21 November 1694 – birth of François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire. French enlightment writer, historian and philosopher. A man of wit who advocated freedom of religion, freedom of expression and separation of church and state. Voltaire wrote more than 20,000 letters, 2,000 books and pamphlets. He criticised intolerance, religious dogma and social institutions. Died 30 May 1778.
21 November 1936 – birth of Victor Chang, a Chinese-Australian cardiac surgeon who pioneered heart transplants. Chang was shot dead on 4 July 1991, in a failed extortion attempt.
21 November 1965 – birth of Bjork (Björk Guðmundsdóttir), Icelandic singer-songwriter, producer and actress.
21 November 1986 – Oliver North, National Security Council staffer, begins shredding documents associated with the Iran-Contra debacle that could have implicated themselves and others within the Reagan administration in the illegal sale of arms to Iran in order to fund the rebel Nicaraguan Contras.