Any rustic maiden. In the Idylls of Theocʹritos, Thestylis is a young female slave.
“And then in haste her bower she leaves,
With Thestylis to bind the sheaves.”
Milton: LʹAllegro.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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