Definition of "slender" []

• Having little width in proportion to height or length; long and thin: a slender rod. (adjective)
• Thin and delicate in build; gracefully slim: "She was slender as a willow shoot is slender—and equally graceful, equally erect” ( Frank Norris). (adjective)
• Small in amount or extent; meager: slender wages; a slender chance of survival. (adjective)

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• "Miss Drexel, seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers, ran along the sand and dropped the skirt for a foothold for the slowly revolving wheels."
• "Cute little girls frozen forever in slender bodies."
• "At one point Miss Drexel "seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers," throws the skirt under the wheels to give the machine's wheels purchase."