waist measure

Example Sentences

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"Nor to lie about your age, or your foot or your waist measure."

From The Widow To Say Nothing of the Man by Rowland, Helen

Always cut parallel with the selvage and the length of the underlap longer than the waist measure, allowing for turning at the ends.

From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz

Measurements Every Girl Scout should know her measurements, including her height, her weight, her waist measure, her chest girth and her chest expansion.

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

All that awful reducing my waist measure seemed just a lack of confidence in his love for me; he wouldn't have minded if I weighed five hundred pounds, I felt sure.

From The Melting of Molly by Daviess, Maria Thompson

The second run was made in the same length of time, but with corsets on, which reduced the waist measure to 24 inches.

From Almost a Woman by Wood-Allen, Mary