accosted Southern Belles

05:38 Jan 27, 2018
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English term or phrase: accosted Southern Belles
Pro-Confederate Southerners hated fellow Southerners who had supported the Union as much as they hated Yankees, who carved their names, their regiments in Southern trees, accosted Southern Belles, raided and ransacked Southern silver, livestock and fowl; and torched Southern fields.
Md. Islam
Bangladesh
Local time: 08:18


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5 +1দক্ষিণী সুন্দরী বা দক্ষিণী বেপরোয়া/ উদ্দাম সুন্দরীদের উত্যক্ত করেছিল
Md Abu Alam
4 +1দক্ষিণের সুন্দর মহিলাদের বিরক্ত করেছিল
Binod Ringania
5আমেরিকার দক্ষিণাঞ্চলের সুন্দরী নারীদের সঙ্গে মারমুখী আচরণ করেছিল।
Basudeb Kumar Paul


  

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accosted southern belles
দক্ষিণের সুন্দর মহিলাদের বিরক্ত করেছিল


Explanation:
Accosted means to detain somebody forcefully, or address somebody who may not be interested in talking. In the present context this was done by the soldiers to the belles of the south because they were dominating in the region.

Binod Ringania
India
Local time: 07:48
Native speaker of: Native in HindiHindi, Native in BengaliBengali

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agree  Monowarul Kayum: দক্ষিণস্থ সুন্দরীদের উত্যক্ত করেছিল
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accosted southern belles
দক্ষিণী সুন্দরী বা দক্ষিণী বেপরোয়া/ উদ্দাম সুন্দরীদের উত্যক্ত করেছিল


Explanation:
To accost is to approach and address (someone) boldly or aggressively.

Southern Belles indicates an attractive, typically upper-class woman from the Southern states of the United States, especially one perceived as having a wild, flirtatious, or steely character concealed beneath an outwardly demure appearance.


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Local time: 08:18
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agree  Monowarul Kayum: দক্ষিণস্থ সুন্দরীদের উত্যক্ত করেছিল
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আমেরিকার দক্ষিণাঞ্চলের সুন্দরী নারীদের সঙ্গে মারমুখী আচরণ করেছিল।


Explanation:
Accost means to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way and the Southern belle (derived from the French word belle, 'beautiful') is a proper young woman of the American South's upper socioeconomic class.So accosted Southern Belles means behaved roughly with beautiful women of southern part of USA.




Example sentence(s):
  • She was accosted by three gang members on the subway.
  • The masked gunmen, dressed all in black, accosted the workers in a hallway and forced them into a room at gunpoint, the police said.

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accost
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Basudeb Kumar Paul
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Local time: 08:18
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