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ladyhood

  • a word derived from lady.

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Emma, Lady Hamilton did not start as a lady, and according to Biographer Bowen, achieved ladyhood only technically.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smoky-eyed Lucile Barrow Turner is the poised, ingratiating, slightly helpless-seeming epitome of Southern ladyhood.

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

The eldest of her charge, at the time this story begins, was a girl just arrived at young ladyhood, and her name was Mary.

From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

There had come a subtle but decided change in the boy's attitude toward her that day, that she felt was a clear tribute to her newly acquired young ladyhood.

From Still Jim by Morrow, Honoré