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  • adjective superlative form of queenly: most queenly.

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Examples

  • Sheila Hancock matches her perfectly as Blum suggesting a woman driven both by obsessive loyalty and outrageous snobbery: knowing she is to be snapped by Snowdon, Hancock makes the queenliest of exits with one hand graciously extended.

    The Last of the Duchess – review 2011

  • The Anglo-American thought ironing the queenliest of the household arts, had every ironing aid known to humankind, and beamed at me when I had ironed-in creases in the sleeves of my cotton blouses.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The Anglo-American thought ironing the queenliest of the household arts, had every ironing aid known to humankind, and beamed at me when I had ironed-in creases in the sleeves of my cotton blouses.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The Anglo-American thought ironing the queenliest of the household arts, had every ironing aid known to humankind, and beamed at me when I had ironed-in creases in the sleeves of my cotton blouses.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • The Anglo-American thought ironing the queenliest of the household arts, had every ironing aid known to humankind, and beamed at me when I had ironed-in creases in the sleeves of my cotton blouses.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • For six generations my people sleep in Georgia soil and for an hundred years my family have lived in the Albany district the queenliest section of the far south that rests resplendant as a jewel upon the snowy bosom of her royal mother Georgia and as beautiful as a cluster of fragrant flowers that nestles in the girdle of a lovely woman.

    Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920

  • An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young,

    Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

  • Spurned by our Ireland’s feet, that queenliest Queen

    Parnell 1922

  • "Sable – fur, you know, the richest, softest, queenliest fur there is."

    The Miller of Old Church 1911

  • He was the prince of scholars; a memory of superlative power waiting, as submissive handmaid, on the queenliest imagination.

    Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912

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