English

Noun

May-lady ‎(plural May-ladies)

1. (now rare, historical) A May Queen.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:

     The jolly Satyres, full of fresh delight, / Came dauncing forth, and with them nimbly ledd / Faire Hellenore with girlonds all bespredd, / Whom their May-lady they had newly made […].

   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III.2.2.iii:

     Some light huswife belike, that was dressed like a may lady, and as most of our gentlewomen are.