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1. Having a long waist, as a person, ship, etc.
1653. R. Sanders, Physiogn., 183. Slender, long-wasted, and not corpulent.
1676. Etheredge, Man of Mode, III. ii. It makes me show long-waisted, and, I think, slender.
1694. Lond. Gaz., No. 2965/4. A young Bay Mare,… long wasted and weak Pasturn.
1826. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. 214. Her long-waisted pigeon-breasted gown.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 589. The thorax appears to be unduly long and narrow, and the patients describe themselves as ‘long-waisted.’
† 2. fig. Easy; loose. Obs.
1647. Ward, Simp. Cobler, 24. I shall … borrow a little of their [women’s] loose tongue Liberty, and mispend a word or two upon their long-wasted, but short-skirted patience.
a. 1658. Cleveland, Lenten Litany, I. iv. From a Parliament long-wasted Conscience, Libera nos, &c. Ibid., Square Cap, iv. Next comes the Puritan in a Wrought-Cap, With a long-wasted Conscience towards a Sister.
