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"Resembling a willow."
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"ref": "2002 November 3, Rick Lyman, “For the Ryder Trial, a Hollywood Script”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "Probably the biggest gasp in the Winona Ryder shoplifting trial last week came when two sales clerks in a row testified that the willowy actress had asked them to fetch her Coca-Colas from the Saks Fifth Avenue cafeteria.",
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"Tall, slender and graceful."
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"(of a person) Tall, slender and graceful."
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{
"word": "slim"
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"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "gertenschlank"
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"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "rank"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "zierlich"
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"_dis1": "1 97 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "grazil"
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"_dis1": "1 97 2",
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"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "caol"
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"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "leabhair"
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"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
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"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
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"Having willow trees."
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"(of a place) Having willow trees."
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"word": "pajukkoinen"
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"sense": "having willows",
"word": "planté de saules"
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"ref": "2002 November 3, Rick Lyman, “For the Ryder Trial, a Hollywood Script”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"(of a person) Tall, slender and graceful."
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"(of a place) Having willow trees."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stroen",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "строен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "gǎvkav",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "гъвкав"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "sorea"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"tags": [
"feminine",
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"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
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"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"tags": [
"feminine",
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "fin"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "gertenschlank"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "rank"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "zierlich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "grazil"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "caol"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "leabhair"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "seang"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "tall, slender, graceful",
"word": "slanciato"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having willows",
"word": "pajukkoinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having willows",
"word": "planté de saules"
}
],
"word": "willowy"
}
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