Meaning of shewy | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of showy.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“I ſaw you were taken with her, which I ſhould not have⟳ expected; for after all, it is but a little uncultivated ruſtic, and ſurely rather ſhewy than handſome.”

“She was a thin, bony figure⟳, measuring five feet and a half, and had been what is termed a shewy woman. From her first bringing out, at the age of sixteen, to the period we are speaking of, when she must be full thirty-six, her sole and undivided attention had been paid to the embellishments of her figure⟳, and studying the most attractive personal graces.”

“If you have⟳ no servant of your own⟳ (which I think⟳ it is ten to one you have⟳ not), contrive to kidnap⟳ some other person’s, when you have⟳ an opportunity—of course, the shewier his livery, the better for you—[…]”

“Yet he is not likely to win⟳ her affections, if younger and shewier persons were placed before her.”

“Every circumstance that had appeared unaccountable to her, Mrs. Freeman’s new-born assumption, her recklessness of expense, her self-indulgence, and, above all, the glaring change⟳ in her style of dress, from extreme neatness and propriety, to the most flaunting and shewiest attire that she could make⟳ up—all was now accounted for; […]”

“The latter, I think⟳, are far superior to the shewier meteors which bewilder us one moment with their overpowering radiance, and the next, leave⟳ us in utter darkness.”

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