Definition of "loose-bodied" [loose-bodied]

• Of loose habits.
• Not fitted to the figure; flowing.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Nicholl, well nigh accepting death, lay rolling like loose-bodied dead men in the boat's bottom, and I was steering when I saw it."
• "Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom of brown thread: I said a gown."
• "The man on the cart was a gipsy, one of the black, loose-bodied, handsome sort."