souple
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of souple
1885–90; short for French soie souple supple silk
Example Sentences
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He remembers Charles Munch, a jury member when he won the Besancon conducting competition in France 1959, inviting him to Tanglewood and praising his “La Mer” as “souple.”
From Washington Post
To impart both movement and structured texture, he relied on a combination of Leonor Greyl products: Mousse au Lotus Volumatrice, Voluforme and Laque Souple.
From Forbes
Souple, sōōp′l, adj. a provincial form of supple—denoting raw silk deprived of its silk-glue.
From Project Gutenberg
On remarque chez lui une imagination souple et vive, une constante aspiration � la force, � la noblesse, � la majest�.
From Project Gutenberg
George Sand's country lies a little to the southward of Touraine, and Berry, too, as the authoress herself has said, has a climate "souple et chaud, avec pluie abondant et courte."
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