or ludby, subs. (old).—A concubine. See LIGBY.

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  1360.  CHAUCER, The Romaunt of the Rose, I. 6339.

        And with me folwith my LOTEBY
To done me solas and company.

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  c. 1426.  J. AUDELAY, Poems, 5.

        Now ȝif that a man he wed a wyfe,
  And hym thynke sche plese hym noȝt,
Anon ther rysis care and stryfe;
  He wold her selle that he had boȝt,
And schenchypus here that he had soȝt,
  And takys to him a LOTEBY.

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  1701.  Harl. MSS. (1809–13), fol. 20.

        For almost hyt ys euery-whore
A gentyl man haþ a wyfe and a hore;
And wyuës haue now comunly,
here husbondys and a LUDBY.
    Ibid., fol. 12.
But þere þe wyfe haunteþ foly
Vndyr here husbunde a LUDBY.

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