单词 | maidenly |
释义 | maidenly (once / 6596 pages) adj WORD FAMILY maidenly: maidenliness+/maiden: maidenhood, maidenlike, maidenly, maidens/maidenhood: maidenhoods USAGE EXAMPLESMiss King’s belle returned to Mississippi after a weekend in Manhattan and explained to her mother how she had not really lost her maidenly innocence. Washington Times(Nov 13, 2014) The white made her look strangely innocent, almost maidenly, but there were points of color on her cheeks. George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings(1998) She was wearing one of her high-necked maidenly gowns, and her face had a pallor that was like flour paste. The New Yorker(Oct 14, 2013) adj befitting or characteristic of a maiden a maidenly blush Syn maidenlike feminine associated with women and not with men |
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