- a variation of lissome.
lissom
Example Sentences
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The house style is proudly melodic and lissom techno, but it has a sideline in transcendent ambient and also invented the glam rock-inflected "schaffel" sound.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2013
All-girl lissom folk harmonies meets multilayered all-girl vocal R&B. Intriguingly, tonight each sister has a drum next to her.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2012
"I hope you are not on the cover tomorrow," the lissom Russian smiled to a table of fellow competitors as she left a Daegu cafe near the athletes' village on Wednesday.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2011
But a number of Kim’s gold-medal predecessors were present Thursday, and all seemed thoroughly impressed that Kim had been so poised and lissom in her presentation and vaulting in her jumps.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2010
"Certainly one of the longest," I said, thinking of those unending lissom limbs swathed in the Futurist draperies of that cobra-woman.
From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Onions, Mrs. Oliver
