All 3 Uses of
demure
in
Babbitt
- He was conscious of her as a girl, of black bobbed hair against demure cheeks.†
Chpt 3 *
- Among the pictures, hung in the exact center of each gray panel, were a red and black imitation English hunting-print, an anemic imitation boudoir-print with a French caption of whose morality Babbitt had always been rather suspicious, and a "hand-colored" photograph of a Colonial room—rag rug, maiden spinning, cat demure before a white fireplace.†
Chpt 7
- Demure lights of little houses.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(demure) modest, quiet, and shy; or pretending such in a playful way