coltish
Example Sentences
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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
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
Ramirez muttered and sighed as the teens, with their baby faces and coltish bodies, bumbled a run-through.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2019
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
Velia pushed Pita toward me and got up to stretch her long, coltish legs.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
