I felt safe - she seemed like a demure young woman.
"She was never a shy or demure woman," says a female cardiologist who studied under her at Hopkins.
It was like a kissing booth at a county fair: eager men, demure women, a big white tent.
Six demure women - good little girls, almost - launch into simple ballet phrases on a stage filled with golden light.
Now she is a beautiful but demure young woman looking forward to many, many more years as a humble servant of the empire.
For the truly demure woman, there are swim dresses.
Pakito was a man engaged to be married to Liling, a modest and demure woman.
It was a 3-B student, a demure young Vietnamese woman.
Now, of course, there are many demure women who choose to dress in this way to display their true colors.