Citations:bodice-rippy
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English citations of bodice-rippy and bodice rippy
Adjective: "(informal) characteristic of bodice rippers"
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- 2008, Reinhold Kramer, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain, page ii:
- In one of those quirks of fate, many years later Richler's daughter Emma, working as an actress, would tell him that she had to do “a deeply silly bodice rippy scene” for a director who had once been a cameraman for Kotcheff on Armchair Theatre.