Chance cuddleys
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Jump to navigationJump to search- chance-medley: a chance encounter, especially between knights errant in medieval romances
- Ulysses 681.10: "chance medley in Beaver street"
- Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard p. 152: "... who, after a moment's reflection, found it no more than chance medley."
- cuddle: to fondle → contrasted with cudgel
- cudgel: to beat with a club → contrasted with cuddle
- Elizabeth Chudleigh: 18th century socialite; she married Augustus John Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, in 1744; her second marriage in 1769 was to the 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, from whom she took the married name Pierrepont (French for "stone-bridge")
- cuddy: (Anglo-Irish) a night's hospitality