Cinderellian

English Alternative forms en Cinderellan Etymology From en Cinderella ian Cinderell(a). Adjective Of, resembling, or characteristic of Cinderella (the character). en of a woman's feet or footwear gracefully small. en The Prince’s Glance D[avid] L[ester] Richardson The Calcutta Literary Gazette or Journal of Belles Lettres, Science, and the Arts XI, old series / III, new series 64 Calcutta 21 March 1835 section “A Companion” 181 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.68700/page/n189/mode/1up 1 He had heard for some time the sound of packing and preparing a carriage, but the worst did not strike his mind, for throwing open the window in blind haste, he beheld, O Heavens! the lovely Hebe, just in the trying moment when she was placing her cinderellian foot on the steps of the carriage, the corpulent landlord with his white woollen cap under his arm, assisting her with his profane hands. en Local, Literary and Miscellaneous Buffalo Morning Express and Daily Democracy XIII 3,783 5 April 1858 section “The Spring Fashions” [3] https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/343325935/ 1 The skirts of gowns are made decidedly short in front with a short train behind; this is by no means an admirable style, but will be in high favor with those whose “golden lillies” are of Cinderellian proportions, and whose shoemaker is beloved of St. Crispin. en Agony Over A Lost Shoe Fort Scott Weekly Monitor 14 50 Fort Scott, Kan. 21 March 1878 1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/67768744/ 6 Regarding one of the Cinderellian slippers worn by Miss Von Hillern, who commences her second walk at Greenwood Hall, to-morrow evening, the Lowell Times says: “On the 5th, one of Miss Bertha Von Hillern’s walking shoes was lost from a bundle, while en route from Massachusetts to this city.” en Local The Round Table XXX 7 Beloit, Wis. 14 December 1883 69 2 Have a care, Mr. Kead, or your carcass may be food for the little birds, and we could ill afford to lose your dulcet tones or the patter of your Cinderellian feet. en Senoritas of Brazil. [Chicago Mail.] w:The Cincinnati Enquirer XLVI 154 2 June 1888 13 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/31324954/ 3 Their figures are universally models for brunette Venuses, and their feet arch like rainbows, and are Cinderellian in size. en E. L. P. An Adjacent Cow Town The Chicago Tribune XLIX 15 June 1889 17 June 1889 4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/349286265/ 6 What if the fertilizer is sometimes on the sidewalk, gravel walk, or front porch, and the first dark night finds it distributed by the Cinderellian slipper or patent leathers of some party bound pedestrian? en Daily Argus-Leader Sioux Falls, S.D. 28 August 1891 6 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/229000034/ 1 Mrs. McKee and Mrs. Russell Harrison have shaken off the dust of foreign lands from their Cinderellian shoe-soles and departed for their native heaths. en Many Competitors. The Inter Ocean’s Prizes to Artists. The Country Interested. Suggestions Coming from Every Quarter. Irreverent Puck and Chicago—What the Leading Artists Will Do. The Sunday Inter Ocean XX 320 Chicago, Ill. 7 February 1892 section “Motives for a Prize Figure” 24 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/33402589/ 3 Eastern artists who apply must be careful to have the feet of the figure but little more than Chinese or Cinderellian size. en A. J. Egan Acute Mania The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 72A 117 New York, N.Y. 27 April 1912 picture and sporting section 1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/57538118/ 4 I simply mention ‘toes’ to emphasize the fact that from the top of her Samsonian locks to the bottom of her Cinderellian boots she is the neatest, sweetest, grandest girl this side of heaven, hades—purgatory or limbo! en Fordham College Monthly 1914 370 the straw that breaks the camel’s back, the Cinderellian slipper that overtopples thrones, and Tomato Soup which swamps, drowns, and asphyxiates in its rubicund liquor a family’s respectability. en A. D. Chatter! Daily News 31 173 New York, N.Y. 13 January 1950 C16 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/449210645/ 3 That Sally girl is our idea of one exquisite bit of packaging and content, from her adorably shaped face to her Cinderellian twinkle-toes, with a perfect little Tanagra statue figure. en by extension of a woman Having gracefully small feet. en Facts on Feet. How Different People Wear Their Shoes. Character Exhibited In Pedal Motion. The Proud Man Wears Back of Boot Heel. Romance and Song Tell of Human Feet. Clumsiest Walkers, Hollanders; Nimblest, Swiss. The Boston Sunday Globe XXXV 90 Boston, Mass. 31 March 1889 18 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/428525105/ 3 In a well-proportioned physical make-up the stature is about 6 to 6⅓ times the foot length, but in adults the feet range in size from a fashionable No. 1 to the hob-nailed, double sole and tap, No. 12 of the miner; in beauty from those of a Cinderellian belle to the hideous club hoofs of the poor unfortunates. Performing gruelling and tedious chores. en Henry G. Hartman Poetry Aesthetics: A Critical Theory of Art Columbus, Ohio R. G. Adams & Co. 1919 III 194 https://archive.org/details/aestheticsacrit00hartuoft/page/194/mode/1up [F]or my purpose in the discussion of poetry is not to furnish a house, but rather, as a Cinderellian drudge, to rid its theory of cobwebs and some of its blinding dust. en by extension gruelling and tedious. en Ray Paul Shards: A Collection of Short Stories w:AuthorHouse 2008 75 978-1-4343-6415-9 Each evening, when he returned from work, we’d sail away on a magic carpet to some exotic place. No matter that the hours between were filled with Cinderellian tasks. His love swept away the mundane. Of, resembling, or characteristic of Cinderella (the fairytale). en H[enry] R[obert] Addison An Unlooked for Result “All at Sea” or Recollections of a Half-Pay Officer London Ward and Lock,158 Fleet Street 1864 301 a cinderellian story. “‘Poor Martha Semple! she is indeed an object of pity,’ says Mrs. Townsend, a cousin of hers; ‘not that she is not well treated, not that she is not very amiable, but she is so remarkably plain; it is quite clear she can never marry. Her three sisters, all such belles, all courted and admired! Alas, poor girl! she has, I fear, but little chance of ever getting off.’ en In Social Circles. A Week of Many Gay Events—Entertainments Past and to Come—The Latest Engagements and Wedding Announcements—Tales of Travelers—Our Guests—Clubs and Social Organizations. The Buffalo Sunday News XXXV 6 Buffalo, N.Y. 5 January 1908 section “The Flower Season, Buds and Roses” 5 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/354438431/ 1 The entrance and departure on and from the social scene by most of the debutantes has been quite in the nature of a Cinderellian performance. en Bethany Children Give an Operetta The Topeka Daily Capital XXXIII 73 Topeka, Kan. 2 May 1909 23 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/64064859/ 2 All the perennial witchery of Mother Goose, enhanced by the madcap gaiety of a troop of brownies and fairies, wrought Cinderellian enchantment, for the forlorn little Earth Maiden, with her rag doll clasped in her arms; and the pathetic little crutch standing on guard across the chair back. en Melissa Merlie Dancing the night away w:Chillicothe Gazette 189 39 Chillicothe, Ohio 16 May 1988 1B https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/292329750/ 2 The girls look like Southern belles or Cinderellas. The prom’s theme is Cinderellian: “Until Midnight.” Little, clear slippers sit on the 30 cloth- and candle-covered tables on the tarp-covered gymnasium floor. en Jack Skelley Blunting the Edge: You asked for a Lite . . . w:LA Weekly May 19–25 1989 57 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/578868379/ 1 Well, that’s just what I was doing last Friday night, when the Cinderellian dream that was the Edge changed back into the pumpkin that we know too well. en Casenote™ Legal Briefs: Family Law New York, N.Y.; Gaithersburg, Md. Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2002 105 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780735535541/page/105/mode/1up 0-7355-3554-X The state’s current approach is Cinderellian—it requires noncustodial parents to provide new ball gowns for their firstborn, while supplying hand-me-downs to their later children. en w:Chris Colfer The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell AudioGO Ltd 2012 168 https://archive.org/details/landofstorieswis0000colf_r2a6/page/168/mode/1up 978 1471 314797 At one point, each of the dancing men collected a shoe from their partners and circled them with it before placing it back on their feet—a Cinderellian tribute, no doubt. Constituting maltreatment, especially as motivated by favoritism, nepotism, or cronyism. en w:Cornish Guardian LXV 3,385 Bodmin 25 November 1965 9 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/787347428/ ‘CINDERELLIAN’ TREATMENT OF FARMERS Ending at or avoiding midnight. en w:All Hands July 1966 61 3 Communicators are almost Cinderellian in their avoidance of midnight, and use either 2359 or 0001. en Melissa Merlie Dancing the night away w:Chillicothe Gazette 189 39 Chillicothe, Ohio 16 May 1988 1B https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/292329750/ 2 The girls look like Southern belles or Cinderellas. The prom’s theme is Cinderellian: “Until Midnight.” Little, clear slippers sit on the 30 cloth- and candle-covered tables on the tarp-covered gymnasium floor. Synonyms en Cinderellaesque en eponyms en Brothers Grimm