Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Symmetrical in shape; well-proportioned.
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Examples
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But it lifted its handsome, clean-shaped little head boldly, and looked sharply round, and gave a little ‘peep’.
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And I say that clean-shaped children can be jetted and conceived only where natural forms prevail in public, and the human face and form are never caricatured;
Says 1900
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The huge-hulled clean-shaped Manhattan clipper at sea, under steam or full sail, gleams with unmatched beauty,
Notes, 150159 1900
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When he opened the stable-door, and was greeted by Stella's low, friendly neighing, or when she limped forward in her box-stall and put her small, clean-shaped head on his shoulder, then Lars Moe's heart swelled until it seemed on the point of breaking.
Boyhood in Norway 1892
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When he opened the stable-door, and was greeted by Stella's low, friendly neighing, or when she limped forward in her box-stall and put her small, clean-shaped head on his shoulder, then
Boyhood in Norway Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871
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And I say that clean-shaped children can be jetted and
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The blast-furnace and the puddling-furnace, the loup-lump at the bottom of the melt at last, the rolling-mill, the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped Trail for railroads,
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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That round, lithe, sinuous figure was as full of dangerous life as ever lay under the slender flanks and clean-shaped limbs of a panther.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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That round, lithe, sinuous figure was as full of dangerous life as ever lay under the slender flanks and clean-shaped limbs of a panther.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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a pleasant, rosy face, rather shining eyes, and rather chubby clean-shaped lips; in appearance, indeed, a grown-up boy.
Plays : Third Series John Galsworthy 1900
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