单词 | long-waisted |
释义 | long-waistedadj. 1. That has a long waist (in various senses); spec. (of a person's body or item of clothing) having a greater than average distance between the shoulders and the waist. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > [adjective] > middle of trunk or waist > types of long-waisted1576 short-waisted1590 side-waisted1599 waspy1658 wasp-waisted1775 waspish1866 nip-waisted1899 1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace Ep. Ded. sig. Aiii Seeing wee allowe of new fashions in cutting of beardes, in long wasted doublets,..wee should allow of new fashions in phrases and wordes. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 183 Slender, long wasted, and not corpulent. 1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. ii. 42 It makes me show long-wasted, and I think slender. 1694 London Gaz. No. 2965/4 A young Bay Mare,..long wasted and weak Pasturn. ?1749 G. Washington Memorandum in Papers (1983) Colonial Ser. I. 45 Memorandum to have my Coat made..very Long Waisted and in Length to come down to or below the Bent of the knee. 1765 tr. A. Goudar Chinese Spy IV. xxxiv. 100 Who is that tall, slim, long waisted woman? 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 214 Her long-waisted pigeon-breasted gown. 1883 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) III. 73/3 Long-waisted,..3. Naut. applied to a ship having a long waist. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 589 The thorax appears to be unduly long and narrow, and the patients describe themselves as ‘long-waisted’. 1925 G. C. Bourne Text-bk. Oarsmanship viii. 210 She is a long-waisted vessel. 1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 63 One of the girls, a long-waisted, brown-haired lovely in a black knit leotard. 2006 Metro (Toronto) 9 Nov. 39/4 Pop by Costa Blanca for a retro fashion hit..long-waisted stretch cotton camisoles with lace trim. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > in action, conduct, or habit freec1300 unbridledc1374 riotous?1456 liberala1500 unrestrained1531 libertine1593 relaxed1623 long-waisted1647 self-abandoning1817 laissez-aller1818 self-abandoned1833 uninhibited1880 un-Victorian1908 leggo1943 zizzy1966 loose1968 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 24 I shall..borrow a little of their [sc. women's] loose-tongue Liberty, and mispend a word or two upon their long-wasted, but short-skirted patience. 1647 J. Cleveland Poems (new ed.) in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4666) 8 Next comes the Puritan in a wrought-Cap, With a long-wasted Conscience towards a Sister. 1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 132 From a Parliament long-wasted conscience, Libera nos, &c. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmaslong-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. < adj.1576 as lemmas |
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