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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
gazelle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Its nice to meet you, Mrs. Giles, I said, offering my hand to the tall blond woman with a gazellelike neck.
Paradise Lost Kate Brian 2009
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Its nice to meet you, Mrs. Giles, I said, offering my hand to the tall blond woman with a gazellelike neck.
Paradise Lost Kate Brian 2009
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Out strutted a gazellelike brunette wearing a flirty red silk crepe number.
Holly Would Dream Karen Quinn 2008
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Out strutted a gazellelike brunette wearing a flirty red silk crepe number.
Holly Would Dream Karen Quinn 2008
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His touch is a dance in the mountains, gazellelike delight in a wonderland of spice.
Solomon’s Song of Love DR. CRAIG GLICKMAN 2004
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The possessions bag was rectangular and made of the tanned hide of theucha, the gazellelike creature the nomads herded.
Vulcan’s Glory D. C. Fontana 1990
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The possessions bag was rectangular and made of the tanned hide of theucha, the gazellelike creature the nomads herded.
Vulcan’s Glory D. C. Fontana 1990
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The possessions bag was rectangular and made of the tanned hide of theucha, the gazellelike creature the nomads herded.
Vulcan’s Glory D. C. Fontana 1990
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They brought forth scintillating jewelled scuttling crabs, which the Vogons ate, smashing their shells with iron mallets; tall aspiring trees with breathtaking slenderness and colour which the Vogons cut down and burned the crab meat with; elegant gazellelike creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1979
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The barefooted lads, with their nimble, gazellelike legs, were all well looking, and might have been cast all in one mold.
A Thorny Path — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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