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svelte

[ svelt, sfelt ]

adjective

, svelt·er, svelt·est.
  1. slender, especially gracefully slender in figure; lithe.
  2. suave; blandly urbane.


svelte

/ sfɛlt; svɛlt /

adjective

  1. attractively or gracefully slim; slender
  2. urbane or sophisticated


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Word History and Origins

Origin of svelte1

1810–20; < French < Italian svelto < Vulgar Latin *exvellitus pulled out (replacing Latin ēvulsus, past participle of ēvellere ), equivalent to Latin ex- ex- 1 + velli-, variant stem of vellere to pull, pluck + -tus past participle suffix

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Word History and Origins

Origin of svelte1

C19: from French, from Italian svelto, from svellere to pull out, from Latin ēvellere, from ex- 1+ vellere to pull

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Example Sentences

And saints are a pretty svelte bunch, what with all the fasting and suffering.

Growing up, Trainor was very self-conscious about her curves, often wishing she could be svelte like her high school friends.

Fair-skinned, tall and svelte with intense black eyes, she sought me out, again to practice her English.

Instead, her au naturel dusting and vacuuming maintained her svelte figure.

When the electro-induced trance subsides, a svelte, attractive brunette is revealed.

The woman reminds one of a red lizard—a salamander—her “svelte” body seemingly boneless in its gown of clinging scales.

Bella was slender and svelte, with long straight soft beautiful silken pale red hair and white-lidded eyes of grayish green.

Her gay svelte figure marched bravely along, virginal defiance in her shoulders and the swing of her tailor-made skirt.

Tall, svelte, and as far as Jacques Dantin could see, she was young.

But she's right there with the svelte figure,176 the school girly flush, and the sparklin' eyes.

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