lissom

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It's lissom and light – insubstantial, but in a good way.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2013

All-girl lissom folk harmonies meets multilayered all-girl vocal R&B. Intriguingly, tonight each sister has a drum next to her.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2012

"I hope you are not on the cover tomorrow," the lissom Russian smiled to a table of fellow competitors as she left a Daegu cafe near the athletes' village on Wednesday.

From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2011

But a number of Kim’s gold-medal predecessors were present Thursday, and all seemed thoroughly impressed that Kim had been so poised and lissom in her presentation and vaulting in her jumps.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2010

Bevis did not answer: he crept cautiously out on the top which vibrated under him; then suddenly seizing a lissom bough, he slipped off and let himself down.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard