half-queenly

Updated: January 2, 2026

The lady at first, perhaps most often, singles out as a pastime some young knight, some squire, some page; and, in a half-queenly, half-motherly way, corrects, rebukes his deficiencies, undertakes to teach him his duty as a servant.

Vernon Lee - Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the: Renaissance - Vol. II