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Old 07-31-2005, 04:02 PM  
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The etymology of nubility

nubile
1642, "marriageable" (said of a woman), from Fr. nubile, from L. nubilis "marriageable," from stem of nubere "take as husband." First used 1973 in sense of "sexually attractive."
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