Ice maiden
noun
1.
a beautiful but aloof woman
noun phrase
A very cool and composed woman; a chilly woman; iceberg: Margaret Thatcher, the Ice Maiden, branded the conservative Gorsuch ”the Ice Queen”/ Ms Stone plays Sally, a powerful woman, another ice queen whose roiling emotions remain contained
[1970s+; perhaps modeled on the title of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale The Snow Queen]
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