young ladylike

comparative more young ladylike · superlative most young ladylike

1. alternativeAlternative form of young-lady-like.

   Dresses next; Smart, Stylish and Young Ladylike, “just like mamma’s.”

   1901 April 30, The Westside; The Hutchenson Co., Ltd., “Special Notice”, in The Daily Colonist, volume LXXXV, number 119, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 6

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   Mrs. [May] Kelly avoids the downright methods of love-making with which novel-readers are familiar. Such a shy and young ladylike lot of young men are not often brought into being by a lady’s pen. A plain question would frighten them: a plain “yes” would seem likely to kill them.

   1882 February 18, “New Novels”, in The Graphic. […], volume XXV, number 638, London, →OCLC, page 166, column 3

   She was of the old school when the issues were simple—ladylike and young ladylike bringing-up, a fortune in prospect, a suitable mate in due course.

   1906, Richard Whiteing, chapter I, in Ring in the New, New York, N.Y.: Century Co., →OCLC, page 6

   Pierre, disconcerted, kicked at some stones. They passed (the two men, not the stones; the stones didn’t pass, they were passed) a group of young gentlemen and young ladies, very young gentlemanlike and young ladylike, who were singing the latest hit.

   1968, Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, chapter 4, in The Bark-Tree (Le Chiendent): A Novel, London: Calder and Boyars, →OCLC, page 127

   I pushed my index finger against my chin and tilted my head to the side. Ever since Professor Yoshizaki admired this pose as looking particularly cute and young ladylike, I had been trying it out every chance I got. Professor Yoshizaki seemed to like women who acted like well-bred young ladies.

   2006, Natsuo Kirino [pseudonym; Mariko Hashioka], translated by Rebecca Copeland., “Jizō of Desire: Kazue’s Journals”, in Grotesque, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 2007, →ISBN, page 383