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Definitions
gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease
Word origin
From Middle English lithsum, equivalent to lithe + -some. Doublet of lithesome.
Used in a sentence
“Now, our country lads, [...] are so much better made, so much more athletic, and yet so much lissomer—to use a Hampshire phrase, which deserves at least to be good English.”
“A brig you see, sir, is much more laboursome in a gale of wind. A Schooner is much lissomer built.”
“[Y]onder sly old trout has seen too much of us; there, taking advantage of an escort of the smaller fry, he's off while we speak; and one flap of his lissom tail has carried him ten yards away: [...]”
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