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- adjective informal Like a
duchess ; with a superiorfeminine elegance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And who is not delighted with this Jack Lofty and his "duchessy" talk -- his airs of patronage, his mysterious hints, his gay familiarity with the great, his audacious lying?
Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series William Black 1869
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You'd have been just as duchessy if you'd been educated, 'insisted her son, hesitating for a word to use instead of lady-like, for he would not, even to himself, own that his mother was not
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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Cappadocia's so duchessy that I had to knock the conceit out of her somehow, or it would not have been possible to live with her.
The Far Horizon Lucas Malet 1891
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“I do hope” — his sister’s crisp, unquestionably duchessy tones reached him the instant he set foot on the hall tiles — “that you intend to come up and call on me?”
The Ideal Bride Laurens, Stephanie 2004
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You’ll see him refuse to bow to a Duchess whom he doesn’t think duchessy enough, and shower compliments upon a kennel-man.
The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003
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