Brewer's: Thestylis

Any rustic maiden. In the Idylls of Theocritos, Thestylis is a young female slave.

And then in baste her bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves.

Milton: L'Allegro.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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