Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of loose habits.
- Not fitted to the figure; flowing.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nicholl, well nigh accepting death, lay rolling like loose-bodied dead men in the boat's bottom, and I was steering when I saw it.
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Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom of brown thread: I said a gown.
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The man on the cart was a gipsy, one of the black, loose-bodied, handsome sort.
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She normally kept her thick hair blow-dried straight, but the rain caused it to revert back into its natural, loose-bodied curl.
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Balsamick quality much longer than the brown sort; the tender drying of this Malt bringing its body into so soft a texture of Parts, that most of the great Brewers, brew it with Spring and Well-waters, whose hard and binding Properties they think agrees best with this loose-bodied Malt, either in Ales or Beer's and which will also dispense with hotter waters in brewing of it, than the brown Malt can.
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Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom of brown thread.
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He wore a white beaver hat with broad brim, and a coat of great "jeans," wide-sleeved and loose-bodied.
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