| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
| Dam’yan (3 syl.). | |
| A “silke squyer,” whose illicit love was accepted by May, the youthful bride of January, a Lombard knight, sixty years old. (Chaucer: The Marchaundes Tale.) | 1 |
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