waisted, a.
(ˈweɪstɪd)
[f. waist + -ed2.]
Having a waist (usu. of specified size or form). (For parasynthetic formations, as deep-waisted, fair-waisted, long-waisted, short-waisted, see the first element.)
| 1582 Stanyhurst æneis etc. (Arb.) 141 Shee limps in the going,..And as a cow wasted plods on, with an head like a lutecase. 1824 New Monthly Mag. XI. 124 Beautiful as youth; Waisted like Hebe; and with Dian's step. 1913 E. T. Leeds Archæol. Anglo-Sax. Settlements vii. 132 A peculiar waisted beaker with rounded base often terminating in an excrescent knob. |