two ladies
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Two Ladies painted on a coffin: On the left Nekhbet as a vulture wearing the White Crown; on the right Wadjyt as a cobra wearing the Red Crown."
- "In this case, the label attests to the existence of the Two Ladies, and their close connection with the kingship, from the very beginning of the First Dynasty; but it does not prove the existence of the Two Ladies’ title at this stage, nor does it have any bearing on the identification of the semi-legendary king Menes."
- "The idea of the dual kingship of Upper and Lower Egypt is shifted from Horus and Seth to the Two Ladies, written (nbty), a clear reference to the vulture goddess Nekhbet of Upper Egypt and the cobra goddess Wadjet of Lower Egypt. [...] This sets up a paradigm of complemetarity between the king, ruler of the Black Land, and the queen, who is a manifestation of the Two Ladies as the Two Lands."