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, salmon And trouts bedropp'd wi' crimson hail, And eels weel kent for souple tail, And geds for greed, pikes Since dark in Death's fish-creel we wail Tam Samson's dead!
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan
She has a good reason to speak ye fair, laird, and she has a souple tongue and a beguilin’ way, juist a Delilah.
From Graham of Claverhouse by Maclaren, Ian
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 Hakluyt, Richard
Tram., 1-8/10 and 2-7/10 drams, black, souple, 40/44 oz.
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 Wolfensberger, Arnold
"Thank your Ladyship kindly," Miss Brennan said with one of the dips which perhaps kept her limbs "souple" as she said.
From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine
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