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willowywil‧low‧y /ˈwɪləʊi $ -loʊi/ adjective - Anastasia was willowy and graceful, with grey eyes and long, straight red hair.
- In contrast to Francesca, who was tall and willowy, Diana was small and curvy.
- Tania was tall and willowy with topaz eyes.
- Blonde Patsy, who is eight months pregnant, looked a far cry from the willowy screen siren bedded by Mel Gibson.
- But not a willowy woman, rather an outright presence.
- Clusters of tall, willowy bamboos rose out of ten pale-pink marble planters and almost touched the high triple-domed ceiling.
- Her long willowy legs splayed outwards into a balletic second.
- It consisted of a willowy double branch of a tree.
- Outside, a fair, willowy girl and a heavy-set woman in white were walking across the lawn.
- She need not be beautiful in the traditional sense of Anglo-Saxon beauty: tall, blond and willowy.
- She was pale and willowy, with a large mouth and the most amazing violet eyes that you ever did see.
thin in an attractive way► slim · She was tall, slim, blond, and really good-looking.· Mrs Ester was in her late thirties, about average height, with a slim figure.· You're looking slimmer - have you lost weight?stay slim · She looks great -- how does she stay so slim? ► slender thin in an attractive and graceful way: · Gabriel was a tall slender young man with a light brown moustache.· Mandy was slender and very fair with long golden hair.· She had long, slender expressive hands, like a concert pianist. ► willowy a woman or girl who is willowy is attractively tall and thin in a graceful way -- used especially in romantic novels: · In contrast to Francesca, who was tall and willowy, Diana was small and curvy.· Anastasia was willowy and graceful, with grey eyes and long, straight red hair. tall, thin, and graceful: She was pale and willowy, with violet eyes. |