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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ladyfy .
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Examples
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He had just paddin 'enough to round him out well, and not so much as to make him look ladyfied.
Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907
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That was the most ladyfied room I ever put me foot in.
Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907
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"Margaret might object," and I laughed at the probable dismay of our stalwart, rough-and-ready five-foot-tenner, should this ladyfied blonde permanently invade her domain.
The Making of Mary 1898
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"And doesn't she look stylish and young ladyfied, with her skirts down to her ankles," added Lloyd.
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Old Mary declared that Miss Clover was getting quite young-ladyfied, and "Miss Clover" was quite aware of the fact, and mightily pleased with it.
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"She's too fine ladyfied to suit me," said Helen Hartwell.
Then and Now;--Or,--Hope's First School Zillah Raymond 1883
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He had almost forgotten that elaborately gowned miss who at sixteen had assumed such young-ladyfied airs.
Quaint Courtships William Dean Howells 1878
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The girls found dead wood very scarce that day, but at last on seeing on the other side of the stream quite a gleaning of branches deposited there by the torrent, Marie and Jeanne crossed over through the water; whilst Bernadette, more delicate than they were, a trifle young-ladyfied, perhaps, remained on the bank lamenting, and not daring to wet her feet.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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The girls found dead wood very scarce that day, but at last on seeing on the other side of the stream quite a gleaning of branches deposited there by the torrent, Marie and Jeanne crossed over through the water; whilst Bernadette, more delicate than they were, a trifle young-ladyfied, perhaps, remained on the bank lamenting, and not daring to wet her feet.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 1 ��mile Zola 1871
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The girls found dead wood very scarce that day, but at last on seeing on the other side of the stream quite a gleaning of branches deposited there by the torrent, Marie and Jeanne crossed over through the water; whilst Bernadette, more delicate than they were, a trifle young-ladyfied, perhaps, remained on the bank lamenting, and not daring to wet her feet.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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