LADYLIKE

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Like a lady in appearance or manners; well-bred. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days. Hawthorne.

2.
a.

Becoming or suitable to a lady; as, ladylike manners. "With fingers ladylike." Warner.

3.
a.

Delicate; tender; feeble; effeminate. Too ladylike a long fatigue to bear. Dryden.


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