waist-length
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2.8
- adjective
- /weɪst lɛŋkθ/
:
hasta la cintura
- Her hair was waist-length, thick and deep bronze, tied back and held in place with a plastic clip.
- waist-length hair
- waist-length jacket
- waist-length braid
Maroon corduroys, a waist length leopard skin jacket, must be fake fur, but who knows.
- Maroon corduroys, a waist length leopard skin jacket, must be fake fur, but who knows.
Examples
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Runs In Light stood silhouetted on the ridge crest above Heron's valley, his waist-length black hair blowing in the wind.
Fiction book (1990) -
" She brushed out her waist-length hair, tied it into a tail, then bundled herself into a gray sweater and bleached-out gray pants that had once been black.
Fiction book (1990) -
Her waist-length coppery hair was her glory.
Fiction book (1992) -
Her waist-length black hair is braided into a thick rope.
Fiction book (1990) -
I have waist-length hair that I straighten and rarely curl.
Blog text (29) -
Her hair was dark brown and waist-length, her face pretty, and her body marvelously well-formed.
Fiction book (1992) -
I've been growing out a Japanese straightening treatment since 2008; I now have waist-length, gorgeous hair.
Blog text (9) -
Despite the cadaverous thinness of her face, she looked beautiful, her waist-length black hair dancing around the edges of her hood.
Fiction book (1990) -
Like Randolph, he was wearing business clothes: a collarless waist-length tunic and matching slacks.
Fiction book (1995) -
Today, her waist-length hair was wound into a braided knot at the back of her neck.
Synonyms
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3.7
Reaching up to a person's waist
Antonyms
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Waist-length simply combines waist and length, meaning 'to the waist'. So it describes clothing that reaches the waist.