Shalott, Lady of, subject of a poem of Tennyson's in love with Lancelot; wove a web which she must not rise from, otherwise a curse would fall on her; saw Lancelot pass one day, entered a boat and glided down to Camelot, but died on the way.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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