immodesty

noun — 2 senses

immodesty

noun

Etymology From im- + modesty or immodest + -y.

1

Usually The state of being immodest; a lack of modesty.

2

Euphemistic, Usually The genitals, privates.

  • No sooner were we seated in this place, but two Girls about twelve years old enter'd at the same Gate whereat we came in; they were all naked, (as, I said above, the Women generally go) saving that they had a very small blew cloth wrap'd about their immodesties [translating vergogne], and their Arms, Ears, and Necks, were full of ornaments of Gold and very rich Jewels.1665, Pietro Della Valle, “From Goa, January 31. 1624”, in George Havers, transl., The Travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a Noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta, page 183:

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