“NUBILE” in italiano

Well, science fiction, when I started reading it in 1930, was mostly bug-eyed monsters threatening nubile maidens.

I was perusing the latest issue of one of those male magazines, you know the type - glossy, cover shots of half naked nubile females and banner headlines screaming guarantees of hitherto unpossessed sexual prowess and financial muscle.

At fifty-one, however, he finds it almost disappointing not to be tempted by the pair of nubile prostitutes who come on to him in an elevator.

The tensive play between the two metaphors ‘bride’ and ‘body’ works only because it was not outrageous for a nubile woman to be depersonified as a body.

In Too Close For Comfort, Henry's wife was Muriel and their nubile daughters were Jackie and Sara, and they all lived together in a two-storey San Francisco duplex.