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lady wit
lady wit n. a female wit.In quot. 1647 with reference to effeminate men.
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1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. iii. sig. L Are these the admired Ladie-wits, that hauing so good a Plaine-song, can runne no better Diuision vpon it. View more context for this quotation
1647 H. More Philos. Poems To Rdr. 6/1 Some Lady-wits that can like nothing that is not as compos'd as their own hair, or as smooth as their Mistresses Looking-glasse.
1860 ‘G. Wharton’ & ‘P. Wharton’ Wits & Beaux of Society I. 301 The abbé was, as usual, surrounded by a circle of lady-wits, dressed in the last fashions, flaunting their fans, and laughing merrily at his sallies.
2006 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Apr. 28 She had reinvented herself again, as a chic and super-successful lady wit.
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