Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a gazelle.

Etymologies

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gazelle +‎ -like

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • Out strutted a gazellelike brunette wearing a flirty red silk crepe number.

    Holly Would Dream Karen Quinn 2008

  • Out strutted a gazellelike brunette wearing a flirty red silk crepe number.

    Holly Would Dream Karen Quinn 2008

  • His touch is a dance in the mountains, gazellelike delight in a wonderland of spice.

    Solomon’s Song of Love DR. CRAIG GLICKMAN 2004

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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