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[syn: maidenlike, maidenly]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Maidenly \Maid"en*ly\, a.
Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest,
reserved.
[1913 Webster]
Must you be blushing ? . . .
What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become ! --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Maidenly \Maid"en*ly\, adv.
In a maidenlike manner. "Maidenly demure." --Skelton.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
maidenly
adj 1: befitting or characteristic of a maiden; "a maidenly
blush" [syn: maidenlike, maidenly]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "maidenly":
Platonic, abstinent, bachelorlike, beardless, boyish, boylike,
calflike, callow, celibate, childish, childlike, coltish,
continent, dewy, distaff, ever-new, evergreen, female, feminine,
firsthand, fledgling, fresh, gentlewomanlike, girlish, girllike,
green, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, husbandless, immature, intact,
kiddish, kittenish, ladylike, little-girlish, maiden, matronal,
matronlike, matronly, muliebral, neoteric, nestling, new,
old-maidish, original, petticoat, pristine, puerile, puplike,
puppyish, puppylike, raw, sempervirent, single, sole, spinsterish,
spinsterlike, spinsterly, spouseless, unbeaten, undeveloped,
unfledged, unhandled, unmarried, untouched, untried, untrodden,
unused, unwed, unwedded, vernal, vestal, virgin, virginal,
womanish, womanlike, womanly, young