Nubilous

A 'damsel tree' with nubile ladies. The men beat the trunk of the tree with clubs, so that the women will fall out like ripe plums. Emblem No. 23 in Emblemata saecularia, 1596 and No. 44 in the second edition of 1611.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Nubilous
Cloudy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

nubilous
Cloudy; overcast; gloomy.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Nubilous
cloudy, overcast—(obs.) Nū′bilose

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. nubilosus, nubilus, fr. nubes, cloud

Usage in the news

The nubile women strut with microscopic plaid skirts, bare midriffs and bras that propel already-ample bosoms upward and outward. ocweekly.com

Salome, nubile and depraved, daughter of Herodias is the coveted stepchild of lascivious Herod, ruler of Judea. rti.org

Salome , nubile and depraved, daughter of Herodias is the coveted stepchild of lascivious Herod, ruler of Judea. rti.org

Ariel Winter's Mom: I Was Only Trying to Protect My Daughter's Nubile Bits. lite987.com

T he rain fell in frosty sheets, painting outfits onto the nubile young bodies on Chestnut Street, as I waited to get inside Mad River. citypaper.net

Greensburg — An older gentleman with his shirt off, showing a torso that is tanned to a crisp, had positioned himself at the beach to watch a cluster of nubile undergrads nearby. greensburgdailynews.com

Well here's a little newsflash for you: that nubile little hottie is now 39 years old. keyj.com

Nubile "Playboy" bunnies do an underwater ballet pas de deux in 3D. courant.com

Usage in literature

Sixteen, slender, but nubile, he said to himself, and laid up the phrase in his memory as a happy one. "Crome Yellow" by Aldous Huxley

Her daughter, Lucille, was nubile. "Imperial Purple" by Edgar Saltus

She retains her vigor and youthfulness, and even at the age of forty may rival the young nubile girl. "Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6)" by Havelock Ellis

Clouds were rising between Toyotomi and Tokugawa as the princess approached nubile years. "Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House)" by James S. De Benneville

The nubile age of females is from about 11 years. "The Philippine Islands" by John Foreman

This we have already pointed out in speaking of the age of nubility. "The Physical Life of Woman:" by Dr. George H Napheys

Such was the ideal of wifely purity in an isle where nubile virgins went naked as in paradise. "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)" by Robert Louis Stevenson

The stage became a comical waggling of nubile white legs. "The Tower of Oblivion" by Oliver Onions

I am barely of nubile age, and yet I was not half so old on the day I saw you for the first time. "Ancient Manners" by Pierre Louys