lissom

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

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

Faultless evening dress clung with loving closeness to Sidney's lissom form. — The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
In his fifteenth summer he was a man, tall, broad, straight and lissom as a locust tree. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
Her form was full and round, its voluptuous maturity standing out in strong contrast to the memory of Cytherea’s lissom girlishness. — Desperate Remedies, Thomas Hardy

lissome, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike

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