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lily-frail

lily-frail adjective: very frail.

Adjective

lily-frail

  1. Very frail.
    • She leaned against me, so light and lily-frail, and as her trembling eased away it seemed as though I became aware of prodigious strength.1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC

Questions about lily-frail

What does lily-frail mean?
Lily-frail means very frail.
What part of speech is lily-frail?
Lily-frail is an adjective.

Words near lily-frail in the dictionary

  1. lily of the Nile
  2. lily of the valley
  3. lily of the valley tree
  4. lily pad
  5. lily pads
  6. lily-frail
  7. lily-handed
  8. lily-livered
  9. lily-liveredly
  10. lily-of-the-valley
  11. lily-white

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