Made or transformed into a young lady; having the characteristics or style associated with young ladies.

Having the manners or lifestyle associated with people of high social position, or (in later use) of a superior social class, esp. the middle…

Having the manners or lifestyle associated with people of high social position; = genteel, adj. 4a.

Affected, finicky, foppish; fond of frippery or finery; showy and insubstantial; fancy. Now rare.

Attempting to look genteel and keep up appearances in spite of shabbiness. Also absol.

= fine-ladyish adj.

of the nature of a fine lady; finicky, fastidious.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a lady; ladylike; (excessively) refined or genteel.

used attributively to designate a school of novelists about 1830 distinguished by an affectation of gentility; also applied to later novelists…

Characterized by the utterance of haw haw as an affected expression of hesitation. Frequently applied to what is taken to resemble upper-class speech.

Characteristic of an affected swell; languidly foppish.

A derisive term for one who affects gentility; a ‘swell’. Also attributive or adj.= lardy-dardy, adj.

= refined, adj. 2.