Definitions
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- adjective having a small waist
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Examples
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She was a pretty young thing of a woman, perhaps twenty years old, with an exceedingly childish, girlish face and a slender-waisted, generously moulded body of fully a hundred and forty pounds.
CHAPTER XXV 2010
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His shoulders are very broad, and his muscles bulge under his shirt; and yet he is slender-waisted, lean-limbed, and hollow-cheeked.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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Long, long ago when I was a slender-waisted college lass, I had a classmate named Michael Steele.
Archive 2009-03-01 Anne Johnson 2009
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Long, long ago when I was a slender-waisted college lass, I had a classmate named Michael Steele.
I Knew Him When Anne Johnson 2009
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But I was seized with a fever of foolish curiosity and went up to the door of that tent, wherein I saw a young man, without hair on his cheeks, who fellowed the new moon; and on his right hand was a slender-waisted maid, as she were a willow-wand.
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This from my slender-waisted days, loaning one of my costumes to a lady who was substantially built, and who looked fantastic in it.
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I am trying to remember these observations now, to design dresses to wear now that I am not so slender-waisted anymore.
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More I could not see, neither her shape nor her hair, for the robe she was folded in covered everything; only that she seemed slender-waisted, and was not very tall.
The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958
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O slender-waisted one, that mortal who drinketh the sweet milk of this cow remaineth in unchanged youth for ten thousand years. '
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Given away by me, accept this slender-waisted damsel for thy spouse.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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