queenly
Adjective
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Adjective
queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)
- Having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal.
- 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter III,
- So Maggie, glad of anything that would soothe her mother, and cheer their long day together, consented to the vain decoration, and showed a queenly head above her old frocks, steadily refusing, however, to look at herself in the glass.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses (novel) Chapter 13,
- There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep.
- 2018, Queen True, "A Royal Stink", True and the Rainbow Kingdom
- I'm so sorry. If I'd done my queenly duties right, none of this would have happened. But maybe I can fix it with some wish help.
- 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter III,
queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)
- In a queenly manner; regally.
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