Lady vs Chic - What's the difference?
lady | chic |
(historical) The mistress of a household.
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A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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* Lowell
* Shakespeare
(polite, or, used by children) A woman: an adult female human.
(in the plural)
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(slang)
Toilets intended for use by women.
(familiar) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.
* (William Shakespeare), (Romeo and Juliet)
A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.
* Waller
(slang) A queen (the playing card).
(dated, attributive, with a professional title) Who is a woman.
(Wicca) .
The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster, consisting of calcareous plates; so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.
stylish; elegant
As nouns the difference between lady and chic
is that lady is The mistress of a household while chic is good form; style.As a proper noun Lady
is the title for the (primary) female deity in female-centered religions.As an adjective chic is
stylish; elegant.lady
English
Noun
(wikipedia lady) (ladies)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- lord or lady of high degree
- Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, / We make thee lady .
- But soft, what light through yonder window breaks...? It is my lady , O it is my love!
- (Goldsmith)
- The soldier here his wasted store supplies, / And takes new valour from his lady's eyes.
Derived terms
* bag lady * charlady * dragon lady * the First Lady * forelady * gray lady * ladies and gentlemen * lady's bedstraw * lady's eardrop * lady's laces * lady's man * lady's mantle * lady's slipper * lady's thistle * lady's thumb * lady abbess * lady beetle * lady bird/lady-bird/ladybird * Lady Bountifel * lady bug/lady-bug/ladybug * Lady Campbell * lady chapel * ladyclock * lady crab * Lady Day * lady fern/lady-fern * lady's finger * ladyfinger * lady friend * Lady Godiva * lady-in-waiting * lady killer, lady-killer, ladykiller * ladylike * ladylove * Lady Macbeth strategy * Lady McLeod * lady of leisure * lady of pleasure * lady of the house * lady of the night * lady or tiger * ladyship * lady smock * lady who lunches * landlady * leading lady * lollipop lady * lunch lady/lunch-lady/lunchlady * m'lady/malady/milady * naked lady * no way to treat a lady * old lady * one fat lady * Our Lady * painted lady * Pink Lady/pink lady * saleslady * Tupperware lady * two fat ladies * saleslady * white lady * young lady * (lady)References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523