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  • adjective Having no waist

Etymologies

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un- +‎ waisted

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Examples

  • Short, unwaisted, but belted at the hips, the gown presents an unflatteringly bulbous silhouette.

    Fashion in Art: Medieval France and the Netherlands 2011

  • But our once shy, carelessly dressed fellow graduate student was now jolting the sensibilities of his colleagues and students at Harvard with a very un-Cambridge Cadillac convertible and a taste for suits more smartly tailored than the shapeless, unwaisted, narrow-shouldered style affected by university types.

    How Nobel Prizewinners Get That Way 1969

  • But our once shy, carelessly dressed fellow graduate student was now jolting the sensibilities of his colleagues and students at Harvard with a very un-Cambridge Cadillac convertible and a taste for suits more smartly tailored than the shapeless, unwaisted, narrow-shouldered style affected by university types.

    How Nobel Prizewinners Get That Way 1969

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