"Cyprian" was a term for a flower - don't know which one - but like all of them it buds, blooms for a while and dies. "Fair Cyprian" was a term for a lightskirt - prostitute, mistress or keen amateur - that was in vogue at the end of the C18. The word "Cyprian" itself refers to people from Cyprus. I've seen it in literature from that period, but what and when I can no longer recall.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...