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Marilyn Monroe en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after film star Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962).

Meanings

1. A woman representing an ideal type of physical beauty and glamour.
   • "Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, It's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood." 1971, Earl Wilson, The Show Business Nobody Knows, page 303:
   • 2016, Robert Glück, "Dennis Cooper: Running on Emptiness", in Communal Nude: Collected Essays, originally from 1989, page 271. George is a type America produces, murders, and then is haunted by. That is, George and his friends are Marilyn Monroes, desirable and exploitable, “too dumb to live.”
   • Both actresses were too tough to make it as Audrey Hepburns and too angular to be Marilyn Monroes; wide-eyed aggression would have to do. 1975, Richard Corliss, Talking pictures: Screenwriters of Hollywood, David & Charles, page 71:
   • You may find a dozen beautiful hunks of photoplasm topped off with blonde hair. But they won't be Marilyn Monroes. 2017, Elizabeth Winder, Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy, →ISBN, page 47:
   • . I rounded the corner and made it to my Jeep, quickly locking the doors against any killer Marilyn Monroes before I picked up my call. 2010, Gemma Halliday, Spying in High Heels, →ISBN:
   • Her neighbours who are no Marilyn Monroes themselves are secretly glad of it, and commiserate with her and blame the Jamuna water for their and her corpulency. 1955, Thought, volume 7, page 952:
   • So many California reds, in his view, hit you in the mouth too quickly, overwhelming the mid-range and its own more delicate and demur palate, which the Marilyn Monroes of red wine cannot accommodate because they engage in a deliberate come-on. 2011, John C. Hartsock, Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, →ISBN, page 124:

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Translations (7)

th มาริลิน มอนโร (Translations) · ko 메릴린 먼로 (Translations) · ja マリリン・モンロー (Translations) · ru Мэ́рилин Монро (Translations) · lo ມາຣິລິນ ມອນໂຣ (Translations) · el Μέριλιν Μονρόε (Translations) · cmn 玛丽莲·梦露 (Translations)