prude (like a …) adj.: missish

In the ballet Don Quixote, Kitri’s costumes (by Barry Kay) are outright disasters. What senorita of her mettle would be seen dead in that dreary, long-sleeved raspberry day dress, more suitable for English autumns than Spanish heat? Rojo, like Kitri, is a girl made for dangerous colours, not missish ones. (Ismene Brown, Stretton’s Arrival Marred by a Damp Squib, Daily Telegraph [London], 10/25/2001.)