spindle-legged
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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He figured out how to earthquake-proof one of Ms. Bourgeois’s spindle-legged spiders so it could win approval for a site in Tokyo.
From New York Times
Sitting on one of the little spindle-legged tables that supported so many frail-looking silver instruments, was an ugly gold ring set with a large, cracked, black stone.
From Literature
The razor-toothed, spindle-legged interlopers are frightening, but it’s almost creepier to watch Blunt and Krasinski’s characters calmly prepare to muffle the first cries of their newborn child.
From The Verge
The warm sunshine flowed in and streamed across the floors, the dim tapestries, the spindle-legged, gilded furniture, and the Cupid-decked clocks.
From Project Gutenberg
Impossibly beautiful spindle-legged waitresses and waiters totter in and out of view in this Red Lobster for hedge funders.
From BusinessWeek
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