nubile

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  1. adjective Ready for marriage; of a marriageable age or condition. Used of young women.
  2. adjective Sexually mature and attractive. Used of young women.

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  • His limbs were still protected by the remains of his froporia armor, and the transparent skin covering his torso did not bleed. —  Sentenced To Prism
  • The bugles screamed the call to rally and the Earl of Uxbridge shouted at the troopers nearest him to withdraw and reform behind the ridge, but other officers, and other buglers, wanted more blood. —  Sharpe's Waterloo
  • "Lost it, along with a handsome pair of white duck riding britches, when I had to execute a swift exit from a flying gondola near a space colony for nubile-- —  Galaxy Jane
  • Hsst! —  Scion of Cyador
  • He kept holding —  Night Arrant
 

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  1. Latin nūbilis, from nūbere, to take a husband.

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  1. = French nubile = Spanish núbil = Portuguese nubil = Italian nubile, from Latin nubilis, marriageable, from nubere, cover, veil oneself, as a bride, hence wed, marry.
 

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