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Nubile

adjective
1.
Of girls or women who are eligible to marry.  Synonym: marriageable.





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"Nubile" Quotes from Famous Books



... was either between distant members (under a law of attraction toward the remote and repulsion from the near, which is shared by mankind and the higher animals), or the result of accidental meeting between nubile members of different groups; that in the second case and sometimes in the first the conjugation produced a new monogamic family; and that sometimes in the first case (and possibly in the second) the new group retained a more ...
— The Siouan Indians • W. J. McGee
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... forty score: The pelting feet of the babes that ran already and played, The clean-lipped smile of the boy, the slender breasts of the maid, And mighty limbs of women, stalwart mothers of men. The sires stood forth unabashed; but a little back from his ken Clustered the scarcely nubile, the lads and maids, in a ring, Fain of each other, afraid of themselves, aware of the king And aping behaviour, but clinging together with hands and eyes, With looks that were kind like kisses, and laughter tender as sighs. There, ...
— Ballads • Robert Louis Stevenson
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Words linked to "Nubile" :   marriageable, mature


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