Having a long waist; long from the armpits to the bottom of the waist; said of persons.
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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.
... features quivered in her long bony face. As she sat near the window, on a high chair, fully illumined, in a black velvet dress, long-waisted, and with a kind of stand-up ruffle at the throat, she was amazingly Queen Bess. James, who was always conscious of the likeness, could almost have expected her to rise and say in the famous words of the Queen to Cecil—"Little man, little man, your father ... — The Coryston Family • Mrs. Humphry Ward
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