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Meanings of nubile in English

Portuguese
ninfeta
Spanish
nínfula

Term used to portray young girls as precociously seductive.

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ninfeta

Old enough to marry.

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Examples for "marriageable"
Examples for "marriageable"
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Tell me; the daughter must be quite at a marriageable age now.
Dame Care
2
The public auction of marriageable virgins had most likely a similar intention.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4: ...
3
Most of em's got daughters of marriageable age, and they'll bring em.
Wizard and glass
4
In the morning unmarried women of marriageable age would dance the Pole.
To the blight: the eye of the world
5
The marriageable age was from fourteen for men, and twelve for girls.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology / For Classical Schools...
Usage of nubile in English
1
In time to behold her in her full, springy, nubile, youthful glory!
White night
2
Let young women rule in all their fresh and nubile beauty.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
3
At most he had loved her nubile young body and pliability.
Fortunate harbor
4
The nubile age is twenty for males and sixteen for females.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
5
A nubile girl, I hear, and not hard to look upon.
A Dance with Dragons
6
There are beautiful women around me, young, nubile goddesses who do the same.
The South African
7
Want to live your fantasies of nubile women, badass rock and giant sandwiches?
The Guardian
8
A nubile young daughter could get seriously in the way.
Book of lost threads
9
But it didn't make me feel any better that they weren't young, nubile beauties.
A ticket to the circus: a memoir
10
The nubile age of females is from about 11 years.
The Philippine Islands / A Political, Geographical, Ethnographic...
11
The nubile young performer who sometimes danced for Octavianus's banquets?
Cleopatra's Moon
12
Liu was as small-boned and intensely nubile as a geisha.
A Case of Conscience
13
Seven companions, obviously prosperous, of whom three were nubile women.
Surrender to the will of the night
14
Behind him, the room was full of nubile young bodies in various states of undress.
Through the grinder
15
Was he imagining me frolicking with some nubile slave?
Song of the Nile
16
Her nubile curves were outlined in green silk.
Cara mia - book one of the immortyl revolution
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Portuguese
ninfeta
Nubile through the time