Lily-frail

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Very frail.

    "She leaned against me, so light and lily-frail, and as her trembling eased away it seemed as though I became aware of prodigious strength."

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"She leaned against me, so light and lily-frail, and as her trembling eased away it seemed as though I became aware of prodigious strength."

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