And you think I am going to insult my own mother and sisters to please any woman's finical prudish notions'?

She talked a great deal about aristocratic fashions; said she wouldn't be a slave to prudish notions-justas she always talks.

This girl, with her narrow prudish notions and dispassionate nature, had presumed to condemn his comrade, unheard, for an imaginary offense.

Madame Deshoulieres had no prudish notions, you will perceive, about a flirtation-providedit was carried on with the airs and graces of the Hotel Rambouillet.