slender

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Hollywood Reporter, the 1950s Los Angeles-set tale finds Fox's character, described as a slender beauty with wings who is part of a carnival, helping a down-in-the-skids trumpeter (Rourke) obtain redemption.

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  1. adjective Having little width in proportion to height or length; long and thin: a slender rod.
  2. adjective Thin and delicate in build; gracefully slim: "She was slender as a willow shoot is slender—and equally graceful, equally erect” (Frank Norris).
  3. adjective Small in amount or extent; meager: slender wages; a slender chance of survival.

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  • He noticed her hands--slender, long, with beautiful fingernails--such hands in Paris! —  Civilization Tales of the Orient
  • The feet matched the hands--slender, long feet, with long, slender toes. —  Civilization Tales of the Orient
  • Lower still lines of running water white as silver came leaping down from cliff to cliff--slender, broken of line, nearly perpendicular--to fall at last into the gray hell of the sea It was a sullen land which menaced as with lowering brows and clenched fists. —  The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse
  • These vital points were feebly connected by a chain of military posts,--slender, and often interrupted,--circling through the wilderness nearly three thousand miles. —  Montcalm and Wolfe
  • The Indian lads--slender, bronze, and statuesque--sat in silence, stolidly listening to the words of the white man, who, standing in the midst of the ring, with his back to the elm-tree, told to his dusky charges a Bible tale. —  Audrey
 

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  1. Middle English sclendre, slendre.

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  1. from Middle English slender, slendir, slendyr, slendre, sclender, sclendre, sklendre, from Old French esclendre, from Middle Dutch slinder, slender, thin; prob. orig. ‘trailing,’ akin to Middle Dutch slinder, a water-snake, Low German slender, a trailing gown, German schlender, the train of a gown, a sauntering gait; from the verb represented by Middle Dutch slinderen, creep, = Low German slindern, slide on the ice, slendern, later G. schlendern, saunter, loiter, lounge, in part a freq. form of the simple G. schlenzen, loiter, idle about, = Swedish slinta, slide, slip, later Middle English slenten, slide (see slant and slink); but ult. prob. a nasalized form of the verb represented by English slide: see slide.
 

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