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empire-waisted

empire-waisted adjective: having an empire waist.

Adjective

empire-waisted (comparative more empire-waisted, superlative most empire-waisted)

  1. Having an empire waist.
    • Mom gave me money to buy these paisley, empire-waisted, one-piece satin lounge pajamas I'd seen at Lerner's Department Store.2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 116

Forms of empire-waisted

comparativemore empire-waisted
superlativemost empire-waisted

Questions about empire-waisted

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

Words near empire-waisted in the dictionary

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

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