Someone sitting very still: back straight, hands in the lap, eyes turned a little , answering softly and not saying much. Nothing about the person is reaching for attention. What you are seeing is the outside — the posture, the voice, the clothes — not what is going on inside. Everything this word does grows out of that one held, quiet pose.
From the word’s history
Middle English demure is a shortening of Anglo-Norman de mure port, 'with a mature bearing', where mure is related to Latin mātūrus, mature. The original idea was a grown-up, settled way of carrying yourself, and that steadiness is still what the modern pose shows.
中古英語的 demure 是把古法語 de mure port（帶著成熟穩重的舉止）縮短而來，其中的 mure 跟拉丁文 mātūrus（成熟）有關。原本的重點是「舉止老成、不毛躁」，今天那個安靜端正的姿態，展示的還是同一種穩。
Wiktionary entry for demure (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:786144125:23510): “Inherited from Middle English demure, an abbreviation of Anglo-Norman de mure port (‘with a mature demeanor’) (compare Old French meur from Latin mātūrus)”.
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