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
Those words had somehow initiated her into young ladyhood, fraught with strange, lovely, privileges, among them the right to be “clear gone” on a man—a man like David!
From Girl Alone by Anne Austin
Trained to a fashionable young ladyhood of delicacy, vapors and graceful fainting-fits, there had been little in her married life to build up fortitude and the courage to endure unwelcome griefs.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
