ladylyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

ladyly (comparative more ladyly, superlative most ladyly)

1. Alternative spelling of ladily
   • 1833, “Philosophy of the Beau Monde”, in The Court Journal, London: […] Henry Colburn; […] W. Thomas, page 338:

     Sheridan (no less by birth than marriage degraded below the established standard) was eventually elevated as high as the breath of lordly and ladyly adulation could bear him.

   • 1840, “Advertisements and Advertisers”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine for 1840, volume VII, Edinburgh: William Tait, […], page 385:

     We do not refer to the fashionable annuals, those very ineffable bulletins of lordly and ladyly inanity;

   • 1841, Albany Poyntz, “Diary of a Dining-Out Man”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume IX, London: Richard Bentley, page 288:

     They all looked affronted at being asked to meet each other; and every time the door opened, I saw them looking out anxiously for some lordly or ladyly arrival.

   • 1851, E[liza] Lynn, Realities: A Tale, volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, page 58:

     As Clara thus deteriorated—at least what Mr. and Mrs. de Saumarez called deterioration—becoming more concentrated in her mental turbulence, so to speak, and more vehement and impassioned every way, Alice improved so rapidly that the very servants learned to call her the “most ladyly” and the “best mistress of the two;” for servants are excellent judges of conventional breeding.

   • 1986, Ray B. Browne, Heroes and Humanities: Detective Fiction and Culture, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, →ISBN, page 3:

     In British mystery fiction the hero works for pay, because he is a part of the official police force or a private investigator; sometimes he or she works merely for gentlemanly or ladyly fun.