Lexicographical Neighbors of Holydam
Literary usage of Holydam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"Heater Myller. Nay, by my trouth, nor wyth no nother man. Yet I saw you well,
when I fyrst began. 490 How be it, so helpe me god and holydam,8 I toke you ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... edds. of Shaks. we find holydam(e due to association with dame, the phrase
being popularly taken as equivalent to ' By our Lady'; see NED. ..."
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