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Meanings of girlishness in anglès

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женственность
portuguès
feminilidade
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femineidad
català
feminitat
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Set of qualities, characteristics or roles traditionally associated with femaleness.

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feminitat
Usage of girlishness in anglès
1
Something of her girlishness returned to her in this moment of sincerity.
The Day of the Beast
2
She had never lost the girlishness of her figure-orof her hands.
The Visioning: A Novel
3
Possibly Demos could not have stood a presentment of girlishness unrestrained.
The Works of Max Beerbohm
4
Miss Hood was a year younger than himself, and had well outgrown girlishness.
A Life's Morning
5
What gives the thing its horror, queerly enough, is the girlishness.
The Guardian
6
And yet-she blushed and smiled with a certain girlishness.
A Little Girl of Long Ago; Or, Hannah Ann / A Sequel to a Little...
7
Her apparently invincible girlishness of spirit had given way to a certain matronly seriousness.
On the Frontier
8
And she felt acutely her slightness, her girlishness, and her need of his help.
Hilda Lessways
9
High breeding did not freeze her lovely girlishness.-ButWilloughby did.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
10
There's a wonderful fineness and firmness under all that shy, wistful girlishness of her.
Rilla of Ingleside
11
Without any consciousness of the fault I committed, I summoned the deity from mere girlishness.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
12
His troubled gaze took in again her slim girlishness.
A Texas Ranger
13
That, with the brocade, will correct your girlishness somewhat.
Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman
14
In the first half, she constantly twirls and pirouettes in an outrageous display of arrested girlishness.
The Guardian
15
Buccari asked with affected girlishness, and everyone laughed.
Genellan: planetfall
16
He and Kedzie talked their honeymoon plans with the boyishness and girlishness of nineteen and sixteen.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
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Girlishness through the time
Girlishness across language varieties
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