Lissome

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of lissom. alt-of, alternative

    "[T]he most striking object was the long array of shoes and boots of all lengths, breadths, and thicknesses; high-lows, low-highs, lace-ups, mud-boots, waders, and snow-boots. If they were not waterproof, as they professed to be, the only question was, as it appeared to me, how they ever got dry and lissome again, when they were once wet."

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

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Example

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"Her lissome figure moved gracefully across the dance floor."

Etymology

See lissom.

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