You had a bad fall last winter because you did not notice that the doorstep was icey.

And many shall follow their riotousnesses, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

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It was precisely this labor of performing ladyhood that allowed the dictionary definition of lady to shift from primarily meaning “a woman of high social position” to a “woman who behaves in a polite way.” The shift from position to behavior did not completely unmoor “lady” from race and class hierarchies, but it did require a different set of behaviors and rituals of ladyness in order to maintain those hierarchies.