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Wasp-waisted

adjective
1.
Having a small waist.  Synonyms: slender-waisted, slim-waisted.






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... pictures the same significance of pose and the same form, from the tip of the nose to the ends of the fingers and the points of the toes—thus revealing a sympathy reaching across many ages. It seems to me that the same artistic impression is to be detected in the still earlier paintings of the wasp-waisted little ladies of the Cogul rock-shelter in Catalonia. We find here the same sinuous figure with exaggeratedly compressed waist, prominent bosom, and emphasised haunches. But it is many, perhaps forty, thousands years earlier! One is ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester



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