NUT-BROWN MAID

Domain	Definition
Literature	Nut-brown Maid Henry, Lord Clifford, first Earl of Cumberland, and Lady Margaret Percy, his wife, are the originals of this ballad. Lord Clifford had a miserly father and ill-natured step-mother, so he left home and became the head of a band of robbers. The ballad was written in 1502, and says that the "Not-browne Mayd" was wooed and won by a knight who gave out that he was a banished man. After describing the hardships she would have to undergo if she married him, and finding her love true to the test, he revealed himself to be an earl's son, with large hereditary estates in Westmoreland. (Percy: Reliques, series ii.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: NUT-BROWN MAID

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-m-n-n-o-r-t-u-w"
	-3 letters: badminton, inundator, windburnt.
	-4 letters: airbound, dominant, downturn, duration, moribund, mountain, nutbrown, outdrawn, ruminant, turndown, twinborn, untoward, windburn.
	-5 letters: ambroid, andiron, auditor, birdman, bondman, budworm, diatron, dormant, imbrown, inboard, inbound, indrawn, inwound, madwort, manitou, midtown, mordant, natrium, outdraw, outward, outwind, rainbow, rainout, romaunt, rotunda, rubdown, rundown, taborin, tambour, tinamou, unbraid, undrawn, unitard.
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