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  • adjective superlative form of shapely: most shapely.

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Examples

  • A sweet-lipped one and soft of sides and cast in shapeliest mould

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Since I hadn't had one, I had to choose at random, and said it had been when I'd first watched blacks being packed aboard on the Dahomey coast, bucks to starboard, wenches to port with the shapeliest females nearest the hatches, for convenience, but I didn't mention that.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Since I hadn't had one, I had to choose at random, and said it had been when I'd first watched blacks being packed aboard on the Dahomey coast, bucks to starboard, wenches to port with the shapeliest females nearest the hatches, for convenience, but I didn't mention that.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Since I hadn't had one, I had to choose at random, and said it had been when I'd first watched blacks being packed aboard on the Dahomey coast, bucks to starboard, wenches to port with the shapeliest females nearest the hatches, for convenience, but I didn't mention that.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • The neckline plunged daringly nearly to her navel, actually lower than the slit up the side of her dress, which in turn displayed one of the shapeliest legs it's ever been my privilege to view first hand.

    Sweet Myth-tery of Life Asprin, Robert 1994

  • One day when I was twenty I came home from playing tennis and I looked in and saw up on this ladder the shapeliest legs I had ever seen.

    Gates of Paradise V.C.ANDREWS 1989

  • One day when I was twenty I came home from playing tennis and I looked in and saw up on this ladder the shapeliest legs I had ever seen.

    Gates of Paradise V.C.ANDREWS 1989

  • And not only the smallest, but also the shapeliest.

    Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

  • A sweet-lipped one and soft of sides and cast in shapeliest mould

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • She rolled up her sleeve and displayed the shapeliest arm imaginable, as white and fresh as her hand was red and rough; a plump, round, dimpled arm, drawn from its merino sheath like a blade from the scabbard to dazzle Pons, who looked away.

    Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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