Marilyn Monroe

plural Marilyn Monroes

1. A woman representing an ideal type of physical beauty and glamour.

   "Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, It's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."

   1971, Earl Wilson, The Show Business Nobody Knows, page 303

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   Her neighbours who are no Marilyn Monroes themselves are secretly glad of it, and commiserate with her and blame the Jamuna water for their and her corpulency.

   1955, Thought, volume 7, page 952

   Both actresses were too tough to make it as Audrey Hepburns and too angular to be Marilyn Monroes; wide-eyed aggression would have to do.

   1975, Richard Corliss, Talking pictures: Screenwriters of Hollywood, David & Charles, page 71

   . I rounded the corner and made it to my Jeep, quickly locking the doors against any killer Marilyn Monroes before I picked up my call.

   2010, Gemma Halliday, Spying in High Heels, →ISBN

   So many California reds, in his view, hit you in the mouth too quickly, overwhelming the mid-range and its own more delicate and demur palate, which the Marilyn Monroes of red wine cannot accommodate because they engage in a deliberate come-on.

   2011, John C. Hartsock, Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, →ISBN, page 124

   2016, Robert Glück, "Dennis Cooper: Running on Emptiness", in Communal Nude: Collected Essays, originally from 1989, page 271. George is a type America produces, murders, and then is haunted by. That is, George and his friends are Marilyn Monroes, desirable and exploitable, “too dumb to live.”