#319 demure

demure- sedate; decorous (polite); reserved; affectedly modest or prim; coy

C14 Old French demorer to delay, linger; perhaps influenced by meur ripe, mature

demurely adverb; demureness noun

She was freezing cold and yet sweat was beading on her forehead and trickling between her breasts under her demure linen nightgown.

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