Grecian bend
noun
(especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
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How to use Grecian bend in a sentence
Upon one of the walls of a little room there I saw a representation of the "Grecian bend."
Ginger-Snaps | Fanny FernThe fashionable Grecian ladies, however, made no display of the "Grecian bend."
Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow | Eliza R. Snow SmithA recent fashion was that humped-up effect that gave the wearer the attitude then known and reviled as the "Grecian bend."
Memoirs of an American Prima Donna | Clara Louise Kellogg
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