All 5 Uses
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- They talk of dresses and gloves and stockings, buttons and baubles in such fevered, fawning detail I fear I shall go mad.†
Chpt 1 *
- She and Martha draw Ann into an eddy of girlish fawning, and Ann goes happily with the current.†
Chpt 4
- It's not that she tells me I'm not welcome; she simply greets each of Cecily's dull tales with a jolly laugh and fawns over the simpering details of Elizabeth's latest trip to the dressmaker's, whilst every syllable I utter is met with complete disdain.†
Chpt 1
- One sits surrounded by children and fawns, her hair flowing in loose waves to the ground.†
Chpt 1
- Simon delivers Miss Fairchild to his mother, and she fawns over the girl while he attends to her in a courtly fashion.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(fawn as in: fawned all over her) showing excessive flattery or affection
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(2)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) "Fawn" more commonly describes a young deer.