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empire-waist

empire-waist adjective: having an empire waist. Also the alternative form of empire waist.

Adjective

empire-waist (not comparable)

  1. Having an empire waist.
    • All those empire-waist gowns and tops that looked so stylish not so long ago suddenly have turned into the fashion equivalent of pumpkins, morphing from au courant to out-of-date as quickly as the New Year's clocks chimed 12.2008 January 8, “Sun sets on the empire line”, in Brisbane Times

Also used as

empire-waist is also the alternative form of empire waist.

Forms of empire-waist

pluralempire-waists

Questions about empire-waist

What does empire-waist mean?
Empire-waist means having an empire waist.
What part of speech is empire-waist?
Empire-waist is an adjective.

Words near empire-waist in the dictionary

  1. Empire Vale
  2. empire waist
  3. empire waists
  4. empire-building
  5. Empire-grown
  6. empire-waist
  7. empire-waisted
  8. empire-waists
  9. empirehood
  10. empires
  11. empiric

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