Etymology
Origin of pipestem
Example Sentences
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Nevertheless, some of his cubist still lifes of 1911 run close to total abstraction, depending on such slender clues as a glass or a pipestem to pull them back to reality.
From Time Magazine Archive
He appears before his public with his pipestem legs encased in garish blue pants, with embroidered silver guitars running down the seams.
From Time Magazine Archive
His expression is at once attentive and stolid; his strong jaw is often clamped firmly on a pipestem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Charles was a 21-year-old clerk in the offices of the East India Company�a fragile, stammering youth with a large head on a thin little body, pipestem legs, and a strained look about his eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her pipestem arms went out toward the collie.
From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson
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