Cleopatranとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

Cleopatran

1. Of or pertaining to Cleopatra or her government or reign; for example, resembling her commanding beauty.

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   • 1868, Mary Cowden Clarke, World-noted women: or, Types of womanly attributes, page 84:

     One of the most perfect touches of characteristic individuality in all that Cleopatra utters, is that little question;—"What says the married woman?" when asking Antony of his wife Fulvia. It is a fine piece of pungent insolence—exquisitely Cleopatran.

   • 2000, in The Best American Magazine Writing 2000 (ISBN 158648009X), page 147:

     Her face was the same lovely exotic intelligent slim Cleopatran face, but her body seemed scaled to a head twice the size of the one she had. She was a big girl. Her arms were round and thick. Her mannerisms were a big girl's mannerisms.

   • 2009, Dave Russell, Raritan Female Institute, page 90:

     The crescent-shaped jaw typically supported a smile that was Cleopatran in its allure. The twinkling gleam in the blue eyes was playful, almost boyish, but the well rounded chest, board flat stomach and tight bottom were anything but.

   • 2012, Linda MacDonald, A Meeting of a Different Kind, ISBN 1780883250, page 265:

     She is called Essie Fairway, a crow-faced woman with black Cleopatran hair. Edward perceived hostility when they were introduced; […]