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Definition of Svelter
1. svelte [adj] - See also: svelte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Svelter
Literary usage of Svelter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1890)
"The winds were contrary, and Plymouth. he was forced to seek for svelter m Falmouth
harbour. Again he put to sea, and again the storm swept down upon his ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical edited by Samuel Johnson (1779)
"... lie naked on the plain, Or docm'dto svelter in the whelming main. s1o Should
he return, that troop fo blithe and bold, With purple robes inwrought, ..."
3. Mitteilungen (1881)
"Auch hier überwiegt ein svelter Körperbau voll edeler Schlankheit. Nur eine der
Amazonen ist untersetzter gebildet: die der Mittelgruppe auf Та f. ..."
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