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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
demure
    adj 1: affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or
           provocative way [syn: coy, demure, overmodest]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Demure \De*mure"\, v. i.
   To look demurely. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Demure \De*mure"\ (d[-e]*m[=u]r"), a. [Perh. from OF. de murs
   (i. e., de bonnes murs of good manners); de of + murs, mours,
   meurs, mors, F. m[oe]urs, fr. L. mores (sing. mos) manners,
   morals (see Moral); or more prob. fr. OF. me["u]r, F.
   m[^u]r mature, ripe (see Mature) in a phrase preceded by
   de, as de m[^u]re conduite of mature conduct.]
   1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in
      bearing; of modest look; staid; grave.
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            Sober, steadfast, and demure.         --Milton.
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            Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and
            that delight showed itself in her face and in her
            clear bright eyes.                    --W. Black.
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   2. Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of
      gravity.
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            A cat lay, and looked so demure, as if there had
            been neither life nor soul in her.    --L'Estrange.
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            Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and
            coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her
            head.                                 --Miss
                                                  Mitford.
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Thesaurus Results for Demure:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Quakerish, Victorian, backward, bashful, censorious, close, confused, conscious, coy, decent, decorous, diffident, earnest, formal, frowning, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, hidebound, inarticulate, long-faced, mid-Victorian, modest, mousy, narrow, nice, old-maidish, overmodest, priggish, prim, proper, prudish, puritanical, reserved, reticent, retiring, sanctimonious, sedate, seemly, self-conscious, serious, shamefaced, shamefast, shy, silent, skittish, smug, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, staid, stammering, stiff-necked, stone-faced, straight-faced, straitlaced, stuffy, thoughtful, timid, timorous, unassertive, unassured, unsmiling, weighty
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