fair lady
Knight's courtly addressee
Fair lady is an old-fashioned or deliberately formal term of address for a woman, now used almost exclusively in historical contexts, fairy tales, or playful gallantry: My fair lady, may I have this dance?
The phrase evokes chivalric romance and courtly manners.
It survives in the musical title *My Fair Lady* and the children's rhyme "London Bridge Is Falling Down."
- maidenUnmarried young woman
- damselOld-fashioned maiden
- beautyAesthetic excellence
- gentleSoft and kind
- gracefulElegant in movement
elegant · princess · Eliza · Doolittle · Henry Higgins · musical · Broadway · Audrey · Hepburn · cockney · flower · girl · flower seller · Covent Garden · professor · Higgins · London · ballad
- Medieval Chivalryhonor, loyalty, chivalry, courtesy, bravery
- Medieval Womenabbess, noblewoman, queen, duchess, countess
- knighthoodknight, knights, knight errant, knights errant, Templars
- terms of endearmentbeloved, lover, sweetheart, darling, dearest
fair ladypeasant woman
Female agricultural laborer
serving girl · scullery maid · commoner · street urchin · tavern wench
fair ladyfallen woman
Morally disgraced female
scarlet woman · loose woman · harlot · woman of ill repute · jezebel
fair, lady, fairer, fairest, fairly, fairness, unfair, unfairly, unfairness