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- Even when Trey was not standing at his mother's elbow (which generally he was), Merrick would be eagerly nodding her head in her demure new pillbox hat, giving a liquid laugh that any brother would know to be false, hanging on to every one of Eula Barrister's prune-faced remarks.†
p. 53.9
- She wore a charcoal knit dress with a demure white collar, and black tights and black suede pumps.†
p. 182.6 *
- She might have the wrong idea even now; he sensed it from the demure way she took her coat off, and the care she took hanging it up.†
p. 316.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(demure) modest, quiet, and shy; or pretending such in a playful way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)