a. rare. [f. CLIP v. + -SOME.] Fit to be clasped or embraced.

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1816.  L. Hunt, Rimini, I. 10. A clipsome waist.

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1822.  Blackw. Mag., XI. 722/1. It may be said of them, ‘with their clipsome waists,’ that they belong to the Cockney school.

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