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    swain

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++swain /sweɪn/ noun [countable] old use  ALGIRLFRIEND/BOYFRIENDa young man from the country who loves a woman 乡村情郎
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    swain• It was my erstwhile swain, looking much the same as 10 years earlier.• Must have every swain at her feet.• If you'd invented a string of lovelorn swains you'd have had to pay customer prices.• Often has the aching brow of royalty resigned its crown, to be decked with the soothing chaplet of the shepherd swain.• A baggy knee was enough to excite the swains.• A young swain more virile and lusty than he?    Origin swain (1500-1600) Old Norse sveinn “boy, servant”
    swain nounChinese
    a from who man loves Corpus the young country


    swain
    swain /sweɪn/ noun [countable] old use
     Date: 1500-1600
     Language: Old Norse
     Origin: sveinn 'boy, servant'
    a young man from the country who loves a woman


    swainBrE /sweɪn/ 🔊NAmE /sweɪn/ 🔊 noun (old use or humorous) a young man who is in love 情郎