| 单词 | womanly woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswomanly woman womanly woman n. a woman who behaves in a manner traditionally regarded as appropriate for her sex; a feminine woman; (also in later use) a woman having a full figure and large breasts. Π 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxlviii So precious perle, as a womanly woman in her kynde. 1794 J. Walters Eng.-Welsh Dict. A womanly woman, gwraig a golwg gwraig iddi neu arni. 1872 (title) Woman's rights and the wife at home. By a womanly woman. 1958 M. Kennedy Outlaws on Parnassus xii. 196 Telemachus..upbraids his mother for not behaving like a womanly woman. 1980 Daily Tel. 1 Dec. 15 (advt.) Pure silk luxury for the womanly woman 42in. plus. 2000 S. A. Glenn Female Spectacle i. 11 She evinced the ‘civilized’ femininity expected of respectable or ‘womanly’ women. < as lemmas |
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