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Universal Lexikon in 1861,
prudery is "modest in an
exaggerated and
affected way;
seeming delicate, squeamish". In a
broader sense,
prudery refers to an attitude...
- Vout (2009), pp. 204–220,
especially 206, 211; Métraux, Guy P.R. (2008). "
Prudery and Chic in Late
Antique Clothing".
Roman Dress and the
Fabrics of Roman...
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reviewers understood the
change as
reflecting American "refinement" and "
prudery." A
style guide to
British English usage, H.W. Fowler's A
Dictionary of...
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period as
characterised by a
distinctive mixture of prosperity,
domestic prudery, and complacency—what G. M.
Trevelyan called the 'mid-Victorian decades...
- marriage.
Peter ****
writes that the Puritans'
standard re****tion for "dour
prudery" was a "misreading that went
unquestioned in the
nineteenth century". He...
- [Luca Guadagnino,
director of 'Call me by your name': 'I can not
stand prudery']. Télérama (in French).
Archived from the
original on
March 20, 2018....
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seeing children naked seems to be
mainly a
recent phenomenon."
Despite the
prudery of the
Victorian era in Britain,
children being unclothed was accepted...
- live pleasure! Nudity? Yea! Wife-swapping? Yea!
Liberate the
world from
prudery. Eman****te our
films from morality!" ... Kill for thrill—shock! Shock...
- when I felt
totally used. I was very unhappy," and Buñuel
deriding her
prudery on the set. Prin****l
photography lasted from 10
October 1966 to 12 December...
- when I felt
totally used. I was very unhappy," and Buñuel
deriding her
prudery on the set. The
resulting film has been
described by film
critic Roger...
