"lankness" meaning in English

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          "text": "The boy's lankness reflected his malnutrition."
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          "ref": "1856 November 15, “Turner’s Pictures at Marlborough House”, in The Athenæum, number 1516, page 1407",
          "text": "Phryne going to the Bath as Venus.— […] Was ever such a heap of rag dolls ever brought together and called men and women. Venuses indeed!—say rather limp-lanknesses seen through a burnt-sienna fog in a classical dream after falling asleep over one of Racine’s tragedies.",
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          "text": "Linen, from what œconomy I know not, is seldom allowed in those portraits, even to the ladies, who lean carelesly on a bank, and play with a parrot they do not look at, under a tranquillity which ill accords with their seeming situation, the slightness of their vestment and the lankness of their hair having the appearance of their being just risen from the bath, and of having found none of their cloaths to put on, but a loose gown.",
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