carlin
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of carlin
C18: named after a French actor who played Harlequin, because of the resemblance of the dog's face to the black mask of the Harlequin
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They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word came to the carlin wife, That her sons she’d never see.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word came to the carlin wife That her sons she'd never see.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
They hadna been a week from her,A week but barely three,Whan word came to the carlin wifeThat her sons she’d never see.
From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang
But how got you on with the king and the carlin?
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
There was Maggy by the banks o’ Nith, A dame wi’ pride eneugh; And Marjory o’ the mony lochs, A carlin auld and teugh.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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