coltish
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One of the youngsters was a coltish winger from Carmagnola, a pretty market town just south of Turin.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2023
The requirements of intimacy acting aside, she brings coltish physicality and expressive flush to all her scenes — whether lonely or laughing, aggravated or emboldened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
And those girls are indeed a light: Sidney and Singleton show giggly chemistry as sisters and coltish joy on the tennis courts.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
Joan Fontaine in Hitchcock’s Suspicion has the girlish, coltish beauty that co-existed with the almost spinsterly style of the schoolteacher, and a smidgen of undeceived worldliness.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2018
A tall, skinny, coltish girl, all legs and elbows, her brown hair was woven in a thick braid and bound about with strips of leather.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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