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nubile, a.1|ˈnjuːbɪl|
[ad. L. nūbilis, f. nūbĕre to marry, or a. F. nubile (= It. nubile, Sp. and Pg. nubil).]
1. Of females: Marriageable; of an age or condition suitable for marriage.
a1642G. Eglisham Forerunner of Revenge 12 Buckinghams Neece was not yet Nubile in yeares. 1718Prior Solomon i. 97 The Cowslip smiles, in brighter yellow dress'd, Than that which veils the nubile Virgin's Breast. 1789Charact. in Ann. Reg. 18 They..feed when they become nubile on a diet somewhat like forced-meat balls. 1849–52Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 1340/2 Hindoo women would gradually come to consist of such as by constitution are early nubile. 1879W. L. Lindsay Mind in Lower Anim. 468 Preference or choice in the selection of mates by the nubile females.
fig.1873Browning Red Cott. Nt.-cap iii. 708 On the day when Spring's green girlishness Grew nubile and she trembled into May.
2. Of age: Admitting of, suitable for, marriage.
1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 425 The female slaves were, at a nubile age, as numerous as the males. 1889J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Wom. xxi. (ed. 4) 170 Twenty to twenty-five years is the best nubile age of women.
3. Of women: sexually attractive.
1973Times 8 Mar. 3/1 Some of the slimmest and most nubile girls in London, animadverted on by the Chancellor in his Budget statement, were on parade in London yesterday beneath the chandelier and haze of perfume of Christian Dior's thrice-repeated display of spring fashion. 1973N. Mailer in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 52/2 A woman so sensitive and alive, so nubile as flesh and evanescent as a wisp of vapour. 1975New Society 17 July 154/2 Most women of my acquaintance..prefer the nubile bodies and erotic accessories of the female nudes. 1975T. Heald Deadline ii. 22 Waiting by the lift doors was a nubile blonde. |