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单词 svelte
释义
sveltesvelte /svelt/ adjective literary Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsvelte
Origin:
1800-1900 French, Italian svelto ‘stretched’, from svellere ‘to pull out’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a svelte young woman
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Our newly svelte state government will serve as a model for others.
  • So he started exercising regularly and eating low-calorie foods and, lo and behold, trimmed down to a svelte 290.
thin and graceful SYN  lithe:  She was slim, svelte, and sophisticated.
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