Definitions
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- adjective
Shy ,bashful ;prudish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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[39] When he published _Le Cocu_, it was set about that a pudibund lady had asked her book-seller for "Le Dernier de M. Paul de Kock."
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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"L'Âme en Peine," which follows, strikes the peculiar Drozian note for the first time; and very pleasant is the painting of the struggles of a pious youth -- pious and pudibund to a quite miraculous extent for a French _collégien_ of good family -- with the temptations of a beautiful Marquise and cousin who, arrayed in an ultra-Second-Empire bathing-costume, insists on his bathing with her.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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Youtube's mandarin prose has always appealed to insincere, pudibund mythomaniacs.
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The pudibund Lane makes allusion to and quotes (A.N. i.
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"devilry" I cannot speak too highly, and in this matter even the pudibund Lane is as free-spoken as myself.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The pudibund Lane makes allusion to and quotes (A.N. i. 216) one of the most out spoken, a 4to of 464 pages, called the Halbat al-Kumayt or "Race -
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
yarb commented on the word pudibund
...she lay back on the outer half of Ada's pillow in a martyr's pudibund swoon, her locks spreading their orange blaze against the black velvet of the padded headboard.
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
June 5, 2008