wasp waist

We somehow suspected that the demand for a return of the wasp waist had influential interests behind it.

A charming Marquise dc Largillere with a wasp waist in blue velvet, elegant and haughty.

She had a beautiful figure; not a wasp waist by any means, but a natural figure, full of power and grace.

He calls Stacey wasp-waist, but it only calls attention to his own big stomach.

In 1860-65, the hoop-skirt held sway, and the wasp waist was typical of beauty.