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adj. - Befitting or characteristic of an unmarried girl.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Then, perhaps feeling that she may have offended me, she quickly added: "Not of course that I doubt that there are maidenlike ladies in America."
  • His eyes rested on the pure outline of her maidenlike face, and he was silent for a moment.
  • The simple and maidenlike heart of a youth long preserves gratitude for the first sweets of love!
  • That maidenlike friend of yours has taken possession of my bed, after your mother's routing me up as if I had been a stoat or a dormouse.
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