2. (University).—A lady visitor to Oxford, especially at Commemoration.

1861. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, xxv. The notion that any of

the fraternity who had any hold on lionesses, particularly if they

were pretty, should not use it to the utmost for the benefit of the

rest, and the glory and honour of the college, was revolting to the

undergraduate mind.

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