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svelte|svɛlt|
Also (rare) svelt.
[F. (= It. svelto), :—pop.L. *exvellitu-, pa. pple. of *exvellĕre, f. ex out + vellĕre to pluck.]
a. Slim, slender, willowy.
c1817Fuseli in Lect. Paint. x. (1848) 594 The Medicean Venus, however ‘svelt’,..has in length no more than seven heads and a half. 1838Granville Spas Germ. 246 The tall, svelte, pale, and interesting Countess P—k—n. 1887M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike iii, The Matron led the way, lovely, smiling,..svelte, and graceful.
b. transf. Elegant, smooth, graceful.
1909E. Pound Personae 43 And first the cities of north Italy I did behold, Each as a woman wonder-fair, And svelte Verona first I met at eve. 1967Listener 30 Mar. 434/1 His earlier work, technically less accomplished, rougher, coarser in execution, left a way open—one felt one could break out of the paint. But now his handling is so skilful, svelte, that all other possibilities are closed. 1974N. Marsh Black as he's Painted xi. 78 Is our svelte hired limousine at the door? 1977Gramophone July 202/1 His rhythmic pungency..in the third piece and the svelte charm of the central waltz..suggest that he might be equally at home with Roussel's symphonic music. |