Leman vs Leban - What's the difference?
leman | leban |
(archaic) One beloved; a lover, a sweetheart of either sex (especially a secret lover, gallant, or mistress).
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*:THenne within an houre there came the knyghte to whome the pauelione ought / And he wende that his lem? had layne in that bedde / and soo he laid hym doune besyde syr Launcelot / and toke hym in his armes and beganne to kysse hym / And whanne syre launcelot felte a rough berd kyssyng hym / he starte oute of the bedde lyghtely / and the other kny?t after hym / and eyther of hem gate their swerdes in theire handes
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.i:
*:Faire Venus seemde vnto his bed to bring / Her, whom he waking euermore did weene, / To be the chastest flowre, that ay did spring / On earthly braunch, the daughter of a king, / Now a loose Leman to vile seruice bound.
*1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
*:The prisoner I speak of is better booty—a jolly monk riding to visit his leman , an I may judge by his horse-gear and wearing apparel.
(often negative) A paramour.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
*:And he sent the news to William the Lyon, sitting drinking the wine and fondling his bonny lemans in Edinburgh Town, and William made him the Knight of Kinraddie.
Coagulated sour milk diluted with water.
Yoghurt (as used in Middle Eastern cuisine).
A fermented liquor made with coagulated sour milk.