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n. - A flirtatious attitude, as with young women.

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  • I should never make this charge, for, to me, Madame Plessy’s minauderies, her grand airs and her arch-refinements, have never been anything but the odorous swayings and...
  • Presently, in the midst of her minauderies, she gave a loud shriek and bounded out of her chair like hare from form, and ran backwards out of the room uttering little...
  • Julian was under the necessity of enduring all her tiresome and fantastic airs, and awaiting with patience till she had “prinked herself and pinned herself” — flung her hoods...
  • A dying fowl -- turned them up like duck in a thunderstorm; when at length, having exhausted her round of/minauderies/, she condescended to open the conversation.
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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