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According to the Miriam Webster dictionary, quean (pronounced kwen) is from the Old English cwene meaning woman or queen.
The Sable Quean (Redwall) by Brian Jacques: Book summary 2010
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Old English cwene, akin to the etymon of queen]. rig [Middle English riggen, of uncertain derivation] dialectal English; cf. riggish ` sluttish, 'as in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, where Enobarbus speaks thus of Cleopatra:
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