Meaning of creaturess | Babel Free

Definitions

Female equivalent of creature.

archaic, feminine, form-of, rare

Examples

“By squeezing your waist into an unnaturally small circumference, you compress your lives into the small compass of a few short years—you don’t give⟳ the bellowses^([sic]) in your bosoms a chance to blow⟳ and keep⟳ bright the flames of existence—the warm glow of health soon leaves your cheek, or flashes by fits and starts, like⟳ the half choked gas-burner—your eyes in a short time cease to sparkle with joy and love⟳—your roses of beauty quickly fade⟳ and fall⟳—you look⟳ as dull and worn out as sunlight strained through the windows of a Catholic cathedral. Now, my interesting young creaturesses, what do you gain⟳ by all your self-squeezing?”

“These two absurd notions, that it is not pretty to be robust and rose, and that it is pretty to try⟳ to superinduce beauty or genius by making owls of ourselves in turning night into day, or by rat-like inhabiting unventilated and unwholesome quarters, seem, in stating, too ridiculous and foolish to require⟳ a rebuff or refutation; and yet there are multitudes of our fellow-creatures and creaturesses acting upon them daily.”

“The men treat⟳ women with great diference^([sic]) here and when they can’t talk⟳ with the pretty girls that come⟳ they just kinder drop their eyes and finish⟳ it off with a sigh⟳. Once in a while some of the creaturesses come⟳ into our “Y” and then just forget⟳ themselves and when we learn⟳ that at home they are just as lonesome for these men then our Puritan censorious eyes peeping from behind the counter turn⟳ from regidity^([sic]) to a twinkle and we say⟳ like⟳ the old soldier said: “Never too late to yearn.””

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