Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being lissome; flexibility; agility; lightness; lithesomeness.

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  • noun The quality of being lissome.

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  • noun the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple

Etymologies

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lissome +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • First of all, it describes his face and frame: quite the exception in a profession so devoted to lissomeness in its anchorpersons.

    In Memoriam: VF Daily Brenner, Marie 2009

  • First of all, it describes his face and frame: quite the exception in a profession so devoted to lissomeness in its anchorpersons.

    Politics and Power: VF Daily Fair, Vanity 2008

  • First of all, it describes his face and frame: quite the exception in a profession so devoted to lissomeness in its anchorpersons.

    Christopher Hitchens Remembers Tim Russert: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008

  • First of all, it describes his face and frame: quite the exception in a profession so devoted to lissomeness in its anchorpersons.

    Culture: VF Daily Peretz, Evgenia 2008

  • The lissomeness with which he moved hither and thither was most impressive, as was his homicidal ardor when doing what I believe is called tackling.

    I can't go on, I'll go on 2004

  • The waist line, rather high but clearly defined -- a precursor of the later more accentuated fashion -- gave grace to her long slender limbs, and emphasised the lissomeness of her figure.

    I Will Repay Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • And from its base the column, after a gentle inward curve -- enough to give it a look of lissomeness and elastic strength -- sprang upright straight and firm to the lantern, ringed with a gallery and capped with a cupola of copper not yet greened by the weather; in outline as simple as a flower, in structure to the understanding eye almost as subtly organised, adapted and pieced into growth.

    The Ship of Stars Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • No one looking at her limpid, shining blue eyes but would have set her down for twenty-three or twenty-four, for not a line showed on her smooth face; she was exquisite of limb and feature, and had the lissomeness of a girl of fifteen.

    The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • No one looking at her limpid, shining blue eyes but would have set her down for twenty-three or twenty-four, for not a line showed on her smooth face; she was exquisite of limb and feature, and had the lissomeness of a girl of fifteen.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • No one looking at her limpid, shining blue eyes but would have set her down for twenty-three or twenty-four, for not a line showed on her smooth face; she was exquisite of limb and feature, and had the lissomeness of a girl of fifteen.

    The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

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