willowy

Word family

THIN PERSONtall, thin, and graceful 修长苗条的；婀娜多姿的

She was pale and willowy, with violet eyes.

她肤色白皙，身材修长，有一双紫罗蓝色的眼睛。

Examples from the Corpus

willowy• She need not be beautiful in the traditional sense of Anglo-Saxon beauty: tall, blond and willowy.• Anastasia was willowy and graceful, with grey eyes and long, straight red hair.• Clusters of tall, willowy bamboos rose out of ten pale-pink marble planters and almost touched the high triple-domed ceiling.• In contrast to Francesca, who was tall and willowy, Diana was small and curvy.• It consisted of a willowy double branch of a tree.• Outside, a fair, willowy girl and a heavy-set woman in white were walking across the lawn.• Her long willowy legs splayed outwards into a balletic second.• Blonde Patsy, who is eight months pregnant, looked a far cry from the willowy screen siren bedded by Mel Gibson.• She was pale and willowy, with a large mouth and the most amazing violet eyes that you ever did see.• Tania was tall and willowy with topaz eyes.• But not a willowy woman, rather an outright presence.

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Corpus

BNC: 34279 COCA: 24680

willowy adj.
⇨ tall

BNC: 34279 COCA: 24680

willowy