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Clean-limbed

//ˌkliːnˈlɪmd// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a slender, athletic body; lithe. dated

    "He was big and clean-limbed and sinewy, with small cunning eyes, a resolute mouth and chin, and an air of perfect fearlessness. Roldan warmed to him, and looked with admiration and envy at the muscles on his splendid limbs."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having well-proportioned limbs wordnet

Etymology

From clean (“shapely, well-proportioned”) + limbed (“having limbs of a specified kind or quality”, adjective).

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