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From Old English hlæfdige meaning woman of a household, wife of a lord. The original literal meaning was "a maid who kneads" as in bread. Its current meaning of a superior woman in society dates from after the Norman invasion, although in American English it has come to mean any "proper" woman i.e. not a prostitute or a young woman/teenager.

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