noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A baggy knee was enough to excite the swains.
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A young swain more virile and lusty than he?
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If you'd invented a string of lovelorn swains you'd have had to pay customer prices.
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It was my erstwhile swain , looking much the same as 10 years earlier.
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Must have every swain at her feet.
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Often has the aching brow of royalty resigned its crown, to be decked with the soothing chaplet of the shepherd swain .