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Nubile adj.

Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable.

Sexually attractive, sometimes used as a genteel euphemism for having well-developed breasts; of a young woman.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... possible, if we accept Dr. Clarke's premises and conclusions. We shall find in France a country where the girls have always been educated in this way, or in convent schools. But shall we find in France a country where the proportion of births to the number of nubile women is greater than in our own? And shall we find in France a country where the general type of the race is degenerating or improving? It will be replied that other causes are at work to produce the result in France. The statement is granted; but have we then ...

— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett

... capacity for which girls, who are older than boys at the same age, naturally excel them. Companionship and comparisons incline him to take premature refuge in some one talent that emphasizes his psycho-sexual difference too soon. Again, he is farther from nubile maturity than the girl classmate of his own age, and coeducation and marriage between them are prone to violate the important physiological law of disparity that requires the husband to be some years the wife's senior, both in their own interests, ...

— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... impressionability of pregnancy would appear to arouse into activity those primitive impulses which are liable to occur in childhood and in the unmarried girl continue to the nubile age. It is a significant fact that the longings of pregnant women are mainly for fruit, and notably for so wholesome a fruit as the apple, which may very well have a beneficial effect on the system of the pregnant woman. Giles, in his tabulation of the foods ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

Words linked to "Nubile" : mature, marriageable