modest woman 意味

• つつましい婦人、慎み深い女性
  

例文

1. she seems to have been a charming and modest woman ( " okagami " (the great mirror )" and " eiga monogatari " ,) and the emperor was greatly shocked and disappointed about her death in addition to the death of teishi .
   美しく控えめな性格の女性であったといい（『大鏡』『栄花物語』）、天皇は定子に続く彼女の死にいたく落胆したという。