shewey

She is quite an Anna with variations-but she cannot have reached her last, for that is always the most flourishng & shewey-she is at about her 3d* or 4th** which are generally simple & pretty.

Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796

In short, Lady Melvyn was one who by herself and many others would be esteemed a fine woman, and by many more ranked only under the denomination of a shewey woman; like Mr Bayes's hero, she was unamiable, but she was great; she excited the admiration of some, but pleased none.

A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue Sarah Scott 1759