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Definition of Lankest
1. lank [adj] - See also: lank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lankest
Literary usage of Lankest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1875)
"lankest-er'e Half-Hours with the Microscope, $1.25./*«/. Lee's Acoustics, Light,
and Heat, 75 с Put. ..."
2. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"He was the puniest, lankest, and leanest of any we had seen on the hacienda, and
his single garment was the dirtiest. His name was Bernaldo. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"The eyes were small and piggy ; the mouth large, with loose blubbery lips ; the
hair was of the lankest and the straightest, tallowy, and of a whitey-brown ..."
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