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单词 gentlewomanlike
释义 gentlewomanlike, a.|ˈdʒɛnt(ə)lwʊmənˌlaɪk|
[f. prec. + like.]
a. Of persons: Having the manners, appearance, or air of a gentlewoman.
b. Of conduct, etc.: Appropriate to a gentlewoman.
1591Horsey Trav. (Hakluyt Soc.) 213 A gentilweomanlike maiden..delivered me a curious white wraught hand⁓kercher.1632Brome North. Lasse i. iv. Wks. 1873 III. 9 And what a Minister she hath procur'd! A Devil in a most Gentlewoman-like apparition.1748Richardson Clarissa (1768) VI. i. 4, I will provide for Dorcas Martindale in a gentlewoman like manner.1832Greville Mem. Geo. IV (1874) II. 335 He afterwards married the daughter of an innkeeper, who proved as gentlewomanlike as the other had been the reverse.1862C. M. Yonge C'tess Kate x. (1880) 117 You will write a proper and gentlewomanlike note.
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