All 3 Uses of
demure
in
Mansfield Park
- A girl not out has always the same sort of dress: a close bonnet, for instance; looks very demure, and never says a word.†
Chpt 5 *
- The close bonnet and demure air you describe so well (and nothing was ever juster), tell one what is expected; but I got into a dreadful scrape last year from the want of them.†
Chpt 5
- I think I see him now, trying to be as demure and composed as Anhalt ought, through the two long speeches.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(demure) modest, quiet, and shy; or pretending such in a playful way