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Wasp-waisted

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a very slim waist, especially as a result of tightly-laced clothing.

    "Last week she had opened a door by mistake on a staircase in Bayswater and a woman in a tight black waspwaisted corset, pearls lolling between two great naked breasts, stood by a cage made of gold wire the size of a fourposter bed, in which were a dozen or so brilliantly fringed and tinted birds."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having a small waist wordnet

Etymology

Referring to the slender petiole of a wasp.

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