Grecian bend

noun

1. (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.

Example Sentences

Upon one of the walls of a little room there I saw a representation of the "Grecian Bend."

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The fashionable Grecian ladies, however, made no display of the "Grecian Bend."

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A recent fashion was that humped-up effect that gave the wearer the attitude then known and reviled as the "Grecian Bend."

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