Etymology
Origin of pipestem
Example Sentences
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They were spidery little animals with pinpoint noses, whittled bodies, pipestem legs.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the summer of 1983 divers found a clay pipestem, brass nails and some rudder strapping.
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
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
In smoking, Indians did not seize the pipestem in the teeth.
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by Helleberg, C. G. (Carl Gustaf)
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