Noun
pudeur (countable and uncountable, plural pudeurs)
A sense of modesty or reserve, especially as relating to sexual matters.
‘She is a goddess,' said Ambrose, drunkenly and stoutly. ‘...And she wants me. She's the pursuer...She's the epitome of woman, not,' he said, ‘not a second-hand bundle of coy erogeneity draped,' he said, ‘in an all-too-diaphanous robe,' he said, ‘of pudeur.' Anthony Burgess