单词 | fairwaisted |
释义 | > as lemmasfair-waisted fair-waisted adj. ΚΠ 1851 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad ix. 170 And Putroclus on the other side reclined: and by him also lay fair-waisted Iphis. 1905 Poet Lore 16 51 Damayanti, the fair-waisted maiden, won the praise of men by her beauty, her majesty, her grace and noble bearing. 2004 tr. in M. Bose Ramayana Revisited ii. 70 Fair-waisted woman, I want to make love to you. fair-waisted Having a waist (usually of specified size or form). (For parasynthetic formations, as deep-waisted, fair-waisted, long-waisted, short-waisted, see the first element.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > [adjective] > middle of trunk or waist waisted1582 1582 R. Stanyhurst in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 97 Shee limps in the going,..And as a Cow wasted plods on, with an head lyke a lutecase. 1824 New Monthly Mag. 11 124 Beautiful as youth; Waisted like Hebe; and with Dian's step. 1913 E. T. Leeds Archaeol. Anglo-Saxon Settlements vii. 132 A peculiar waisted beaker with rounded base often terminating in an excrescent knob. < as lemmas |
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