milkmaidy

Example Sentences

• "Fullness of skirt aids in giving a better effect than narrowness, but even with ful­ness in excess, there is still a certain unfinished, milkmaidy look, wanting both in elegance and aplomb."
• "We are going to have an open-air vaudeville and show off all those talents which make us such a loss to the professional stage, and the dance in the coach house, which boasts a polished floor, if you ever heard of such a luxury, will be on the nickel-a-dance order and as milkmaidy and country-wenchy as we can possibly achieve."
• "So one by one the shops came into being, each exactly like all the others: bow windows divided up in old-fashioned style into many little panes; no Neon lights—“My God! No!” Maurice Bannerman shouted, nearly apoplectic, when some one suggested it—waitresses looking rather milkmaidy; and, above all, quiet."
• "[…] the curtains had still not arrived, were still not hanging at our rustic casements. And yet I could envisage them so clearly, the red and white of the neat check, so rustic and milkmaidy—though, admittedly, Jacques saw them more as striped, white and green, a disparity that gave rise to many a sunny discussion, just like the ones newlyweds have, discussions immediately complicated by the views of the children, all of whom were hoping for sprigs of flowers; […]"
• "Prettily floral, milkmaidy fabrics and papers for the home."
• "Terri was so lovely in a kind of fresh and clean, milkmaidy way."