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Lissom

//ˈlɪsəm// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Flexible and graceful in movement; lithe.

    "Now, our country lads, [...] are so much better made, so much more athletic, and yet so much lissomer—to use a Hampshire phrase, which deserves at least to be good English."

Adjective
  1. 1
    gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English lithsum, equivalent to lithe + -some. Doublet of lithesome.

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