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Nubile   Listen
adjective
Nubile  adj.  
1.
Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable.
2.
Sexually attractive, sometimes used as a genteel euphemism for having well-developed breasts; of a young woman.





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"Nubile" Quotes from Famous Books



... king his doom by spreading a white cloth over his face and knees as he lay slumbering in the heat of the sultry afternoon. Execution soon followed the sentence of death. A hut was specially built for the occasion: the king was led into it and lay down with his head resting on the lap of a nubile virgin: the door of the hut was then walled up; and the couple were left without food, water, or fire to die of hunger and suffocation. This was the old custom, but it was abolished some five generations ago on account of the excessive sufferings of one of the kings who perished ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer


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