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- noun The state or condition of being
svelte ;slim litheness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She was no dog, certainly, and in fact her high cheekbones and widely spaced greenish eyes and rather full lips and her svelteness and her prodigious heightshe was easily five-ten, almost as tall as Tristanqualified her as hot, a term that Tristan detested but also knew applied in this case, at least where other guys would be concerned.
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Prior to 1985, all light bolt-action hunting rifles began as heavy factory guns that were chopped, gouged, and hacked into svelteness.
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She's standing up and wearing a weird white jacket buttoned conspicuously at the waist as if to argue with those who said she'd been photoshopped into semi-svelteness.
Archive 2006-09-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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I've been swimming -- the past three days out of four, and I'll go again tonight -- but unfortunately it has not resulted in immediate svelteness.
readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2005
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And despite herself, Alma, who was not without a young girl's feelings for nice detail, could thrill to this sartorial svelteness and to the patent-leather lay of his black hair which caught the light like a polished floor.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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The machine weighs a ton and has all the svelteness of an anchor.
Low End Mac 2010
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This svelteness is achieved via a mix of aluminum, lightweight steel and carbon fiber.
Autoblog Green Jonny Lieberman 2010
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It falls somewhere between the svelteness of slices like those from the original Patsy's in Harlem on one hand and the far thicker (and far too thick in my view) of most all the other pizzerias named Ray's.
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But the programs promising "natural" svelteness go further.
What Would Phoebe Do 2009
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The bodies are chambered to retain tonal characteristics provided by the select tonewood top without suffering as much collateral tonal loss from the svelteness of the body.
Gearwire - 2009
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