"lady-like" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more lady-like",
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      "form": "most lady-like",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1778, Samuel Crisp, The early journals and letters of Fanny Burney, volume III, published 1994, page 188:",
          "text": "They put me in mind of a poor Girl, a Miss Peachy (a real, & in the end, a melancholy Story)—she was a fine young Woman; but thinking herself too ruddy & blowsy, it was her Custom to bleed herself (an Art she had learn’d on purpose) 3 or 4 times against the Rugby Races in order to appear more dainty & Lady-like at the balls, &c",
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        {
          "ref": "1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 273:",
          "text": "“Having understood as much, I was rather astonished to find her so very lady-like! But she is really quite the gentlewoman.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 68:",
          "text": "They were shewn into a back sitting-room on the ground-floor, where a certain air of elegant untidiness denoted the lady-like superiority of Mrs. Smallwood.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Japan Quarterly, page 76:",
          "text": "Ladies in English legend have been known to turn into foxes; but do so ladily, in a properly lady-like manner.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 spring, Sandra Perlmutter, “Message from the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports”, in Linda K. Bunker, editor, Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of Girls: Physical & Mental Health Dimensions from an Interdisciplinary Approach: Executive Summary: The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: Report […], Washington, D.C.: President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, →OCLC, page 5:",
          "text": "The images of strong, active women were inspiring, a long way from the days when females were relegated to \"lady-like\" sports and young girls were left on the sidelines while their brothers played.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of ladylike."
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  "word": "lady-like"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lady-like",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lady-like",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1778, Samuel Crisp, The early journals and letters of Fanny Burney, volume III, published 1994, page 188:",
          "text": "They put me in mind of a poor Girl, a Miss Peachy (a real, & in the end, a melancholy Story)—she was a fine young Woman; but thinking herself too ruddy & blowsy, it was her Custom to bleed herself (an Art she had learn’d on purpose) 3 or 4 times against the Rugby Races in order to appear more dainty & Lady-like at the balls, &c",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 273:",
          "text": "“Having understood as much, I was rather astonished to find her so very lady-like! But she is really quite the gentlewoman.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 68:",
          "text": "They were shewn into a back sitting-room on the ground-floor, where a certain air of elegant untidiness denoted the lady-like superiority of Mrs. Smallwood.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, Japan Quarterly, page 76:",
          "text": "Ladies in English legend have been known to turn into foxes; but do so ladily, in a properly lady-like manner.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 spring, Sandra Perlmutter, “Message from the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports”, in Linda K. Bunker, editor, Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of Girls: Physical & Mental Health Dimensions from an Interdisciplinary Approach: Executive Summary: The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: Report […], Washington, D.C.: President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, →OCLC, page 5:",
          "text": "The images of strong, active women were inspiring, a long way from the days when females were relegated to \"lady-like\" sports and young girls were left on the sidelines while their brothers played.",
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        }
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