What does shewy mean?
Shewy means Obsolete spelling of showy..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Obsolete spelling of showy..
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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Shewy means Obsolete spelling of showy..
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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.
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