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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 limbsplay

  Familiarity information: CLEAN-LIMBED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CLEAN-LIMBED (adjective)


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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