shapely
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Unassuming from the outside, the shop opens into a huge ark of mortar-crusted brick and ribcage-like beams, with long dining tables displaying shapely vases, pitchers, teacups and plates in shades of apricot, amber and malachite.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
“It’s a Urania Klein,” my friend said, as he lifted the shapely antique typewriter from his car trunk.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024
He says he took the above photo when "like so many others that day and on countless days before us, we rested awhile at Sycamore Gap admiring the tree's shapely tenacity and vigour".
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2023
Mr. Drucker combined shapely phrasing with impeccable fingerwork.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022
She was a young Baggins, and too obviously considered her face shapely.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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