Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Queen Bess
subs. phr. (old).—See quot. and NED STOKES.
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1791. Gentleman’s Magazine, lxi. 141. The Queen of Clubs is here [Lincolnshire] called QUEEN BESS, perhaps because that Queen, history says, was of a swarthy complexion.
