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Spindle-legged   /spˈɪndəl-lˈɛgəd/   Listen
Spindle-legged

adjective
1.
Having long slender legs.  Synonym: spindle-shanked.





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"Spindle-legged" Quotes from Famous Books



... of bathing-machines, pushed well away from the curious shore. There was not much variety in the visiting English type, but there was here and there a sharp imperial accent, as in the two pale little, spindle-legged Anglo-Indian boys, with their Hindu ayah, very dark, with sleek dark hair, and gleaming eyes in a head not much bigger than ...
— Seven English Cities • W. D. Howells


Words linked to "Spindle-legged" :   spindle-shanked, lean, thin


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