La″dy‐kin (?), n. [Lady + -kin.] A little lady; — applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary.
☞ The diminutive does not refer to size, but is equivalent to “dear.” Brewer.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.