Wasp-waisted

Synonyms for "wasp-waisted" (60 found)

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Translations

3 translations across 3 languages.

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Bulgarian

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  • с много тънка талия adj (having very slim waist)

Finnish

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  • ampiaisvyötäröinen adj (having very slim waist)

Hungarian

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  • darázsderekú adj (having very slim waist)

Sample sentences

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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.

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He strutted down Bond Street with the best of them, decked out in his top hat, wasp-waisted coat and silk hose.

Source: wiktionary

Being a devotee of the Johnny Weismuller school of Tarzaning, no wasp-waisted cartoon character can get my blood aboil.

Source: wiktionary

"Housewife" recalls too strongly the wasp-waisted 1950s figure outwardly thrilling to the latest advances in domestic technology while necking tranquillisers to dull the pain of frustrated ambition.

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