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Joan|dʒəʊn|
Also 5–7 Ione, 7 Ioane.
[A female proper name, orig. Joanna or Johanna, fem. of Jo(h)annes John; hence in transf. uses.]
1. A generic name for a female rustic.
[c1490Promp. Parv. 264/2 (MS. H.) Ione, Johanna.] 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iii. i. 207 Some men must loue my Lady, and some Ione. 1595― John i. i. 184 Now can I make any Ioane a Lady. 1612Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. xci. F j, Many a countrie Ione. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Joan, a homely Joan, a Coarse Ord'nary Woman. 1802Mrs. Sherwood Susan Grey 48 You are such a dowdy, such a country Joan, no one will look upon you.
2. Name for a close-fitting cap worn by women in the latter half of the 18th century.
1756Cowper in Connoisseur No. 134 ⁋7 A grocer's wife attractd our eyes, by a new-fashioned cap, called a Joan. 1762Poetry in Ann. Reg. 208 Now loose in a mob, now close in a Joan. |