Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of semierotic.
She was especially fond of Isadora-Duncan-style floating, ethereal gowns, and had semi-erotic photographs taken of herself swathed in revealing chiffon.
2005, Margaret Jackson, The Real Facts Of Life, →ISBN2 more examples
'It's an odd choice,' he said, referring to the semi-erotic e.e. cummings poem which Dr Roberts had passed round a week after a raft of Shakespearian sonnets.
2012, Eleanor Moran, In a New York Minute, →ISBNOr, 'Hey, I'm going to read this simple-minded, large-print, semi-erotic rom-com novel that has a picture on the cover that's exactly the same as all the other simple-minded, large-print, semi-erotic rom-com novels because it's research for the simple-minded, large-print, semi-erotic rom-com novel I'm thinking of writing that will have exactly the same cover as all the other simple-minded, large-print, semi-erotic rom-com novels.'
2015, Peter Holmes, Ben Caudell, Would I Lie To You? Presents The 100 Most Popular Lies of All Time, →ISBN
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