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
In the summer of 1983 divers found a clay pipestem, brass nails and some rudder strapping.
From Time Magazine Archive
His face is freshly scrubbed, his pipestem legs are filling out on milk, fresh vegetables and meat.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were spidery little animals with pinpoint noses, whittled bodies, pipestem legs.
From Time Magazine Archive
This stem is made up of little flat rings looking like bits of a pipestem.
From Diggers in the Earth by Tappan, Eva March
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