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- lissome·ly adverb
- lissome·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lissome1
First recorded in 1790–1800; variant of lithesome ( def )
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Example Sentences
The lean and lissome Obama has learned to slap with a long hand.
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There is certainly no lack of either about this idyll of Elizabeth Kemp of the lissome limbs and auburn hair.
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Her own costly wedding veil drapes the dainty, lissome figure.
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What rhythms are so lissome and persuasive as those of the first part?
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In this garden the musicians played, and the tawny dancers writhed and curved their lissome bodies, in dramatic Eastern dances.
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Among the men of Seville one sees many slim, lissome, well-proportioned figures of medium height.
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