harvest queen

plural harvest queens

1. An image of Ceres, goddess of fruits, in ancient times carried about on the last day of harvest.

   Synonyms: harvest doll, kern-baby

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see harvest, queen.

   Thy gown was of the grossie green, thy sleeues of Satten hanging by: Which made thee be our haruest Queen, and yet thou wouldst not loue me.

   1878 [1584], Clement Robinson, “A new Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeues” (stanza 9), in Edward Arber, editor, A Handful of Pleasant Delights