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Long-waisted adj.

Having a long waist; long from the armpits to the bottom of the waist; said of persons.

Long from the part about the neck or shoulder, or from the armpits, to the bottom of the weist, or to the skirt; said of garments; as, a long-waisted coat.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... emotions of fear, hate, love or anguish, and does not fail to produce very tragi-comic combinations. I remember a group of a man in the dress of an Antwerp burgher sitting on a three-legged stool, with his head on the knee of a discreet-looking woman in a long-waisted, plain-skirted gown, with a high square bodice closed by a plaited neckerchief, her hair drawn tightly back under a close round cap, her pocket hanging from her girdle on one side, and on the other a small array of housewifery implements, among others a pair of scissors, with which ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 90, June, 1875 • Various