souple
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of souple
1885–90; short for French soie souple supple silk
Example Sentences
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Now safe the stately sawmont sail, And trouts be-dropp’d wi’ crimson hail, And eels weel ken’d for souple tail, And geds for greed, Since dark in death’s fish-creel we wail Tam Samson dead.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
Tram. souple 13/14 $4.50 .30 white bright P.D.
From Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics by Arnold Wolfensberger
They dresse their skinnes very soft and souple with the haire on.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Richard Hakluyt
The silk is now finer and harder and is known as "souple."
From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson
Although he has painted hosts of excellent dog pictures, cats are his favorites, on account, as he says, of "les formes fines et gracieux; mouvements, souple et subtil."
From Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others by Helen M. Winslow
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