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empire-waists

empire-waists is the plural of empire-waist.

Meaning 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so stylish not so long ago suddenly have turned into the fashion equivalent of pumpkins, morphing from au courant to out-of-date as quickly as the New Year's clocks chimed 12.2008 January 8, “Sun sets on the empire line”, in Brisbane Times

Questions about empire-waists

What is empire-waists the plural of?
Empire-waists is the plural of empire-waist.

Words near empire-waists in the dictionary

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

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