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What is a swain?

What is a swain? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) A young man or boy in service; a servant.
  2. (obsolete) A knight's servant; an attendant.
  3. (archaic) A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic.
  4. (poetic) A rural lover; a male sweetheart in a pastoral setting.
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She came to inquire whether the swain who kept her company, and had promised to marry her, would keep his word or be false-hearted.
The courts ruled against our final appeals late on the night of Nov. 7, around 26 hours before swain was put to death.
It does in fact deliver not so much the methadone as the cold-turkey treatment for any modern swain tempted to act the fool for love.
However, should any over-eager young swain on her card have the misfortune to fall over in their rush to get to her and break a leg, I shall oblige.
The two boys invited me and Mrs. swain to stop at Salem to visit them, which we did.
A swain touched then his lute, or whatever you may call it, to his dulcinea.

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