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lovely:
1. Beautiful, pretty, attractive . 2. Having qualities that inspire love or affection . WordNet : ' Appealing to the emotions as well as the eye .'
3. In England, an attractive woman .
4. A lovely : a) From the late 1600s onward, a sweet woman of virtuous character, a genuinely nice person. b) In America in the 1930s, a great girl to go petting and necking with.
See Also: a bit of stuff, loverly, lovely, makeup, piece of stuff, a piece of stuff, bint, eunuch,
Quotes Containing lovely:
Lancelot (Richard Gere) in First Knicht (1995): ''I dare not kiss so lovely a lady . I have but one heart to lose.''
Ingrid Bergman: ''A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.''
Lancelot (Richard Gere) in First Knicht (1995): ''I dare not kiss so lovely a lady . I have but one heart to lose.''
Connie Randall (Carole Lombard) to Jerry 'Babe' Stewart (Clark Gable) in No Man of Her Own (1932): 'Just a New York cowboy , aren't you? Passing through and giving the little small town girl her big-moment . You'd be lovely to have around just to sprinkle the flowers with your personality.'
Lynn (John Wayne) and Sabra (Frances Dee) in Wheel of Fortune (1941): - Lynn: ''You know , you''d be lovely if you had brown hair.'' - Sara: ''I have brown hair.''
''Her hair was the color of gold in old paintings. She had a full set of curves which nobody had been able to improve upon. She was giving me the kind of look I could feel in my hip pocket.'' Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) speaking about Velma Grayle (Charlotte Rampling) in Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
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