Meaning of Cinderellian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of, resembling, or characteristic of Cinderella (the character).
2. Gracefully small.
3. Having gracefully small feet.
   broadly
4. Performing gruelling and tedious chores.
5. Gruelling and tedious.
   broadly
6. Of, resembling, or characteristic of Cinderella (the fairytale).
7. Constituting maltreatment, especially as motivated by favoritism, nepotism, or cronyism.
8. Ending at or avoiding midnight.

Examples

“He had heard for some time the sound of packing and preparing a carriage, but the worst did not strike his mind, for throwing open the window in blind haste, he beheld, O Heavens! the lovely Hebe, just in the trying moment when she was placing her cinderellian foot on the steps of the carriage, the corpulent landlord with his white woollen cap under his arm, assisting her with his profane hands.”

“The skirts of gowns are made decidedly short in front with a short train behind; this is by no means an admirable style, but will be in high favor with those whose “golden lillies” are of Cinderellian proportions, and whose shoemaker is beloved of St. Crispin.”

“Regarding one of the Cinderellian slippers worn by Miss Von Hillern, who commences her second walk at Greenwood Hall, to-morrow evening, the Lowell Times says: “On the 5th, one of Miss Bertha Von Hillern’s walking shoes was lost from a bundle, while en route from Massachusetts to this city.[…]””

“Have a care, Mr. Kead, or your carcass may be food for the little birds, and we could ill afford to lose your dulcet tones or the patter of your Cinderellian feet.”

“Their figures are universally models for brunette Venuses, and their feet arch like rainbows, and are Cinderellian in size.”

“What if the fertilizer is sometimes on the sidewalk, gravel walk, or front porch, and the first dark night finds it distributed by the Cinderellian slipper or patent leathers of some party bound pedestrian?”

“Mrs. McKee and Mrs. Russell Harrison have shaken off the dust of foreign lands from their Cinderellian shoe-soles and departed for their native heaths.”

“Eastern artists who apply must be careful to have the feet of the figure but little more than Chinese or Cinderellian size.”

“I simply mention ‘toes’ to emphasize the fact that from the top of her Samsonian locks to the bottom of her Cinderellian boots she is the neatest, sweetest, grandest girl this side of heaven, hades—purgatory or limbo!”

“[…] the straw that breaks the camel’s back, the Cinderellian slipper that overtopples thrones, and Tomato Soup which swamps, drowns, and asphyxiates in its rubicund liquor a family’s respectability.”

“That Sally girl is our idea of one exquisite bit of packaging and content, from her adorably shaped face to her Cinderellian twinkle-toes, with a perfect little Tanagra statue figure.”

“In a well-proportioned physical make-up the stature is about 6 to 6⅓ times the foot length, but in adults the feet range in size from a fashionable No. 1 to the hob-nailed, double sole and tap, No. 12 of the miner; in beauty from those of a Cinderellian belle to the hideous club hoofs of the poor unfortunates.”

“[…] [F]or my purpose in the discussion of poetry is not to furnish a house, but rather, as a Cinderellian drudge, to rid its theory of cobwebs and some of its blinding dust.”

“Each evening, when he returned from work, we’d sail away on a magic carpet to some exotic place. No matter that the hours between were filled with Cinderellian tasks. His love swept away the mundane.”

“a cinderellian story. “‘Poor Martha Semple! she is indeed an object of pity,’ says Mrs. Townsend, a cousin of hers; ‘not that she is not well treated, not that she is not very amiable, but she is so remarkably plain; it is quite clear she can never marry. Her three sisters, all such belles, all courted and admired! Alas, poor girl! she has, I fear, but little chance of ever getting off.’”

“The entrance and departure on and from the social scene by most of the debutantes has been quite in the nature of a Cinderellian performance.”

“All the perennial witchery of Mother Goose, enhanced by the madcap gaiety of a troop of brownies and fairies, wrought Cinderellian enchantment, for the forlorn little Earth Maiden, with her rag doll clasped in her arms; and the pathetic little crutch standing on guard across the chair back.”

“The girls look like Southern belles or Cinderellas. The prom’s theme is Cinderellian: “Until Midnight.” Little, clear slippers sit on the 30 cloth- and candle-covered tables on the tarp-covered gymnasium floor.”

“Well, that’s just what I was doing last Friday night, when the Cinderellian dream that was the Edge changed back into the pumpkin that we know too well.”

“The state’s current approach is Cinderellian—it requires noncustodial parents to provide new ball gowns for their firstborn, while supplying hand-me-downs to their later children.”

“At one point, each of the dancing men collected a shoe from their partners and circled them with it before placing it back on their feet—a Cinderellian tribute, no doubt.”

“‘CINDERELLIAN’ TREATMENT OF FARMERS”

“Communicators are almost Cinderellian in their avoidance of midnight, and use either 2359 or 0001.”

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