lady
noun
a woman who is refined, polite, and well-spoken.
ladyhood
-
a word derived from
lady.
Example Sentences
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Smoky-eyed Lucile Barrow Turner is the poised, ingratiating, slightly helpless-seeming epitome of Southern ladyhood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Emma, Lady Hamilton did not start as a lady, and according to Biographer Bowen, achieved ladyhood only technically.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I coaxed you into ladyhood, Ophelia. I taught you the ways of the court, and watched you grow into a clever and learned woman.”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
She had shot into a tall girl, though she would have her dresses short; she despised young ladyhood.
From A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda Minnie Douglas
The early situation was not reversed, for Lucina still admired and revered her aunt as the realization of her farthest ideal of ladyhood, but Miss Camilla fully reciprocated.
From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
