maidish

Where fashion made forties women look statuesque and stern and seriously sexy in a dominatrix way, fifties women had looked fussy and frivolous and French maidish in a Trixie way.

Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

Where fashion made forties women look statuesque and stern and seriously sexy in a dominatrix way, fifties women had looked fussy and frivolous and French maidish in a Trixie way.

Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

Where fashion made forties women look statuesque and stern and seriously sexy in a dominatrix way, fifties women had looked fussy and frivolous and French maidish in a Trixie way.

Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

'Lord, child, don't be so precise and old maidish.

Camilla 2008

A year later, in your Vanity Fair article, "Hitler's Ghost," (which Irving has posted on his website) you argued that Irving's books deserve to be published in America, described criticism of Irving as "hysterical and old-maidish," and declared, "David Irving is not just a Fascist historian, he is also a great historian of Fascism."

Max Blumenthal: Dance, Hitchens, Dance 2008

Being a spinster, you're little old-maidish, but that's no harm.

A Month in the Country 2006

And she was far less settled into old-maidish ways.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

And she was far less settled into old-maidish ways.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

Throwing politeness to the winds, he twitted Sara with her finical affectations, her old-maidish ways, the morning sloth that expected

Australia Felix 2003

She pitched her easel with her precise old-maidish movements on the edge of the lawn, not too close to Mr Carmichael, but close enough for his protection.

To the Lighthouse 2002