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Meanings of svelte in English

Moving and bending with ease.

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      Being of delicate or slender build.

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            Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience.

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                  Usage of svelte in English
                  1
                  In cold weather his preferences go toward the buxom, in summer, svelte.
                  A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
                  2
                  Speck's SeeThru is about as svelte as a protective case can get.
                  Wired
                  3
                  More powerful speakers than the previous Pro make it a svelte boombox.
                  Wired
                  4
                  This suede low-top which delivers big-boot stability in a svelte alpine-centric package.
                  Climbing Magazine
                  5
                  The Ultrabooks will be svelte and lightweight but still pack high-performace processors.
                  Reuters
                  6
                  Assistant Director Sandra Cummings, analyst-synthesist and semantician, was tall, blonde and svelte.
                  Masters of Space
                  7
                  She was a blonde, a brunette, tall, petite, svelte, straight-featured, full, curvilinear.
                  The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament
                  8
                  That's hardly svelte, but less weight is always a good thing.
                  Wired
                  9
                  Always carry a headlamp on long routes, but make it a svelte one.
                  Climbing Magazine
                  10
                  Long approaches and multi-day loads may overwhelm the shoe's svelte undercarriage.
                  Climbing Magazine
                  11
                  I was present in court, and I must admit she was svelte-decidedlysvelte.
                  Something New
                  12
                  Sony PSP: Gorgeous and svelte, with lots of promising games in the pipeline.
                  Wired
                  13
                  Worse, I was seeing the svelte new carcass alongside my old-model MacBook Pro.
                  Wired
                  14
                  There is neither svelte luxury nor tiki-taka romance at this ground.
                  The Guardian
                  15
                  The CDP-101 did not come cheap nor did it come svelte.
                  Wired
                  16
                  She looked very unmagical, with her sleek short hair and svelte besuited figure.
                  The witch queen
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                  Svelte through the time
                  Svelte across language varieties
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