Queenly
['kwiːnlɪ] or ['kwinli]
Definition
(adj.) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen; 'queenly propriety'; 'clad in her queenly raiment'; 'Rosetti's queenly portraits of women' .
Editor: Shanna--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.
Checker: Ophelia
Examples
- It was a queenly presence--tall, graceful, and intensely womanly. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- You see now, my queenly Blanche, began Lady Ingram, she encroaches. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The only way to look queenly without realms or hearts to queen it over is to look as if you had lost them; and Eustacia did that to a triumph. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Her movement was graceful and queenly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- With denunciations of bloodthirsty anti-national bodyguards, are heard dark growlings against a queenly name. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She stood grandly defiant, a queenly figure, her eyes fixed upon his as if she would read his very soul. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Checker: Ophelia