giant maiden

noun

A female giant; a giantess.

Meanings

noungiant maiden (plural giant maidens)

plural giant maidens

  1. A female giant; a giantess.

    "Three hundred, years lived I with my father on the island of Kunnan, happy in the innocence of youths as the fairest among the Giant-maidens.

    1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 219
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