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CLEAN-LIMBED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clean-limbed mean?
• CLEAN-LIMBED (adjective)
The adjective CLEAN-LIMBED has 1 sense:
1. having well-proportioned limbs
Familiarity information: CLEAN-LIMBED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having well-proportioned limbs
Similar:
shapely (having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape)
Context examples
In front there stood a small group of Indians—little, clean-limbed, red fellows, whose skins glowed like polished bronze in the strong sunlight.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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