Maid`ma"ri*an (?), n. [Maid + Marian, relating to Mary, or the Virgin Mary.]
1.
The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.
2.
A kind of dance.
Sir W. Temple.
© Webster 1913.