maiden
noun
a girl or young unmarried woman; maid.
maiden-like
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a word derived from
maiden.
Example Sentences
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Somewhat delicate looking, forsooth, but there are many lads as maiden-like.
From In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls by Clyde Osmer De Land
Various aetiological explanations of the name Parthenius were given by the ancients, e.g. that the maiden Artemis hunted on its banks, or that the flow of its waters was gentle and maiden-like.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
The old ice-king has had a merry time of it, playing with the long branches of the graceful maiden-like elm, and wrestling with the gnarled and haughty oak.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
And Betty had a mischievous desire to stick her head into Miss McMurtry's room and see if she was engaged in some maiden-like occupation, such as marking school papers or reading the Woodford Gazette.
From The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World by Margaret Vandercook
Yet no—she carries all her beauty in her face; her manners are not maiden-like, and her mind knows no culture save that of pleasure.'
From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
