Meaning of shewey | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B1]

Examples

“She was a very ſhewey, good-looking woman: ſhe had been, probably, reckoned handſome in the days of her youth: they certainly, by the effort ſhe made to ſet off her face⟳ and figure⟳ to the greateſt advantage, thoroughly convinced the moſt careleſs ſpectator formarum, that ſhe had not given up, in her own⟳ mind⟳, all pretenſions to admiration.”

“They were shewn into the usual sitting room, well-proportioned & well-furnished;—tho’ it saw⟳ Furniture rather originally good & extremely well kept, than new or shewey—[…]”

Sanditon

“One simple but very shewey method of exhibiting bonfires or illuminations was practiced. These consisted of barrels of straw or shavings which were arrayed round a square — as the Piazza Colonna &c — and when these were set⟳ on fire, the staves confined the material & retained the flame — so as to render it more permanent than I should have⟳ expected.”

“I saw⟳ the servants of the Duke of Northumberland in their shewey dress liveries, throwing lumps of bread and cheese among the dense crowd of vagabonds they had collected together . . .”

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