The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LADY
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More clues leading to the result LADY
- Ballad about duke and lord's wife
- Disorder putting off old woman and another woman
- Tramp's friend remained with daughter in custody
- End-product of, say, finishing-school, place that’s home to daughter
- Girl describing daisy: extremely artificial flower
- Breaking a law? Indignity for royal attendant
- Woman into bed with Democrat
- She’s entitled to be taken to heart by soulful Knight?
- Female screw locks up daughter
- Song about daughter titled “Woman”
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The straight part
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What does LADY mean?
LADY noun- An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.
- A high priestess.
- The mistress of a household.
- A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.
- The feminine of lord.
- A title for someone married to a lord or gentleman.
- A title that can be used instead of the formal terms of marchioness, countess, viscountess or baroness.
- (polite or used by children) A woman: an adult female human.
- (in the plural) A polite reference or form of address to women.
- Used to address a female.
- (ladies' or ladies) Toilets intended for use by women.
- (familiar) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.
- A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.
- A queen (the playing card).
- (with a professional title) Who is a woman.
- The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster, consisting of calcareous plates; so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.
- A five-pound note. (Rhyming slang, Lady Godiva for fiver.)
- A woman’s breast.