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Nubile

Nubile \Nu"bile\, a. [L. nubilis, fr. nubere to marry: cf. F. nubile. See Nuptial.] Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable.
--Prior.

2. Sexually attractive, sometimes used as a genteel euphemism for having well-developed breasts; -- of a young woman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nubile

1640s, "marriageable" (said of a woman), from French nubile (16c.) or directly from Latin nubilis "marriageable," from stem of nubere "take as husband" (see nuptial). In sense of "young and sexually attractive" from 1973. Related: Nubility.

Wiktionary
nubile

a. 1 of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman). 2 sexually attractive (especially of a young woman). n. A young sexually attractive woman

WordNet
nubile

adj. of girls or women [syn: marriageable]

Usage examples of "nubile".

Her violent contortions over the tabouret, needless to say, showed off the most secret parts of her nubile young body in the most lascivious way, and Maude righteously exhorted Charlene to take her birching humbly and not be such an indecent minx, advice which poor Charlene could not have heeded at this point, much less count off the strokes.

Every nubile female who ever entered Andor House has been used similarly.

Martin has moved quickly to replace us, Gretchen is presently the only nubile female in Fennilwood.

His six-room Boston apartment took up half the upper floor of a mellow old brownstone on Beacon Hill, and an endless skein of nubile, saponaceous Melissas and Randis and Cheryls replaced one another at eager intervals as unpaid housekeepers, cooks, and laundresses for Harvey S.

Boston apartment took up half the upper floor ofa mellow old brownstone on Beacon Hill, and an endless skein of nubile, saponaceous Melissas and Randis and Cheryls replaced one another at eager intervals as unpaid housekeepers,cooks, and laundresses for Harvey S.

Pap smears, addressing the nubile Madame Psychosis in progressively puerile baby-talk and continuing to use her childhood diminutive like Pookie or Putti as he attempted to dissuade her from accepting a scholarship to a Boston University whose Film and Film-Cartridge Studies Program was, he apparently maintained, full of quote Nasty Pootem Wooky Barn-Bams, unquote, whatever family-code pejorative this signified.

Thus the boy missed the glance of feral hunger that Dirrach flicked toward the nubile Thyssa before attending to his perquisites as minister to King Bardel of Lyris.

The buckskin dress on the nubile young Amerind girl was quickly whipped into a thousand rotted tatters.

A succession of nubile young models eager to parade in his furs on the Paris catwalks and also to give him solace had temporarily dulled the pain, but somehow Irena Dezov never left his mind.

The young women of Mashona, 259 if they were nubile, were mounted for pleasure and used as breeding-stock to provide more warriors for his murderous impis - but then you know all this.

The young women of Mashona, if they were nubile, were mounted for pleasure and used as breeding-stock to provide more warriors for his murderous imp is but then you know all this.

The Shilluk of the White Nile, perhaps, whose custom it once was to wall up their king, together with a nubile virgin, to die in the dark of hunger and thirst?

Every nubile female who visits the duke is forced into that dungeon, forced naked onto the unpadded table and fucked by every man present at the time, regardless of protest or other consideration.

Baxter and Trueheart will be dancing among the nubiles, but I want the rest of us there.

Vicky Camberwell was not yet thirty years of age, and she was also an unusually attractive and nubile young woman.