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lanknesses

lanknesses is the plural of lankness.

Meaning of lankness

Noun

lankness (countable and uncountable, plural lanknesses)

  1. The property of being lank, slender or thin.
    • The boy's lankness reflected his malnutrition.
  2. The property of being lank: straight, flat and limp. (of hair)
    • Linen, from what œconomy I know not, is seldom allowed in those portraits, even to the ladies, who lean carelesly on a bank, and play with a parrot they do not look at, under a tranquillity which ill accords with their seeming situation, the slightness of their vestment and the lankness of their...1771, Horace Walpole, chapter 1, in Anecdotes of Painting in England, volume 4, page 2

Questions about lanknesses

What is lanknesses the plural of?
Lanknesses is the plural of lankness.

Words near lanknesses in the dictionary

  1. lankish
  2. lanklet
  3. lanklets
  4. lankly
  5. lankness
  6. lanknesses
  7. lanks
  8. lanksome
  9. lanky
  10. Lanlivery
  11. Lanman

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