See wasp-waisted on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Referring to the slender petiole of a wasp.",
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"ref": "1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 33:",
"text": "Last week she had opened a door by mistake on a staircase in Bayswater and a woman in a tight black waspwaisted corset, pearls lolling between two great naked breasts, stood by a cage made of gold wire the size of a fourposter bed, in which were a dozen or so brilliantly fringed and tinted birds.",
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{
"ref": "1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 11:",
"text": "He strutted down Bond Street with the best of them, decked out in in his top hat, wasp-waisted coat and silk hose.",
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},
{
"ref": "2011 October 12, Lucy Mangan, The Guardian:",
"text": "\"Housewife\" recalls too strongly the wasp-waisted 1950s figure outwardly thrilling to the latest advances in domestic technology while necking tranquillisers to dull the pain of frustrated ambition.",
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"Having a very slim waist, especially as a result of tightly-laced clothing."
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"word": "wasp waist"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "s mnogo tǎnka talija",
"sense": "having very slim waist",
"word": "с много тънка талия"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having very slim waist",
"word": "ampiaisvyötäröinen"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "having very slim waist",
"word": "darázsderekú"
}
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}
],
"word": "wasp-waisted"
}
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},
{
"ref": "2011 October 12, Lucy Mangan, The Guardian:",
"text": "\"Housewife\" recalls too strongly the wasp-waisted 1950s figure outwardly thrilling to the latest advances in domestic technology while necking tranquillisers to dull the pain of frustrated ambition.",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "s mnogo tǎnka talija",
"sense": "having very slim waist",
"word": "с много тънка талия"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having very slim waist",
"word": "ampiaisvyötäröinen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "having very slim waist",
"word": "darázsderekú"
}
],
"word": "wasp-waisted"
}
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