Brewer's: Lindabrides

A heroine in The Mirror of Knighthood, whose name at one time was a synonym for a kept mistress, in which sense it was used by Scott, Kenilworth and Woodstock.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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