In the reign of Elizabeth, when long-waisted doublets and short trunk hose became the fashion, the armour was considerably modified.
Towards the end of the reign, short-waisted gowns were worn, girded tightly at the waist, with enormous trains and with turn-over collars of fur or velvet coming to a point in front.
You were the slim-waisted Lady of Doves, you were Ishtar and Ashtaroth, for whom the Canaanite girls gave up their earrings and anklets and their own slender bodies, you were the dolorous Isis, and Aphrodite.
The broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted coat did not fit him ill, though the shiny boots were at least a size too large.
The high-waisted Empire gown of soft green voile made her appear taller than usual.
Lavendar accepted the lip-salve, and thanked Algy warmly; then he said that the picture on the lid of the tight-waisted lady was very striking.
And that night wanderer, having approached the presence of that slender-waisted lady, looked like the planet Saturn in the presence of Rohini.
But disregarding his words from supreme contempt, the slender-waisted Krishna reproving said unto the king of Sindhu, 'Speak not thus again!
Hearing these words of her maid, the slender-waisted and beautiful Kaikeyi put on all her ornaments, and sought her husband in a secluded place.
And the slender-waisted Damayanti, in beauty and brightness, in good name and grace and luck, became celebrated all over the world.
Hearing those words of his queen, Nala replied, 'O slender-waisted Damayanti, it is even as thou hast said.
And those slender-waisted ladies vied with one another, O king, in gratifying the Rishi.
Will this ornament of womankind, this slender-waisted lady of so much beauty, endued with handsome teeth and large eyes, accept me as her lord?
His costume was of the oddest: a long-waisted coat reaching nearly to his heels, short trousers, a flowered silk vest, and a napless hat.
The most conspicuous person on the steamboat was a thin man, whose extraordinary height was made more striking by his very long-waisted black coat and his very short pantaloons.
A walrus-waisted black woman, with a rich throaty voice, a rolling eye, and a kindly heart.
The slim-waisted shirted figures bent plastically over the table in the graceful postures of the game.
And she was the most old-fashioned of little girls, buttoned up in a plain-waisted bright blue merino dress, with many gathers in the full skirt.
With the putting on of the costume she had put on a courage and self-possession that never could have been assumed with the old-fashioned tight-waisted blue merino and the stiff short tails of hair.
Abby was a slender girl of fifteen, in a short-waisted gingham gown, with a muslin tucker, dimity apron, and morocco shoes on a pair of small feet demurely crossed before her.
Generals in active service thread the German's mazes, agile as when in slim-waisted cadet days they paced flirtation walk, in all the pomp and circumstance of glorious gray.
In some portions of the south a professor who boasts a bicycle kyphosis, writes polysyllabic profundities in long-waisted chirography, and combs his hair like John C.
She wore a short-waisted black frock, scant of skirt and cut away at the neck.
The queen, clad in a long-waisted dress covered with jewels, and wearing a great ruff open at the throat, which was then only worn by young unmarried women, is seated in a chair under a light canopy borne by six knights.
This is a copy made in 1760; and we see the poor old queen, dressed in the long-waisted bodice and hooped skirt we know so well in pictures.
Slender-waisted one, Gods, men, and Gandharvas have we beheld, But never none among them like to him.
O my Love with the bright smile, My slender-waisted Queen!
She always wants me to wear a coat when I go anywhere with her, so people won’t see how short-waisted I am.
A wasp-waisted West Pointer, raw from school; thinks he's learned all there's to know about war out of a book on triggernometry.
Her short-waisted dress is of crimson silk, with short sleeves.
Her fair beauty was extremely striking, and her neat-waisted figure perfect.
In the later days of the eighteenth century greater comfort was granted, when the short-waisted dress prevailed, together with the most laudable ambition to copy the flowing elegance of the classic period.
Several of the ladies attendant upon all this elegance have the privilege of appearing with her in the illumination, in high caps with the hair drawn through the top, short-waisted gowns, and trains with fur borders.
Marie Antoinette varied her corsets to suit her bodices, therein showing much wisdom, since obviously the short-waisted bodice asks beneath it a stay totally different from that needed beneath a bodice which is cut in a long point in front.
Peasant women wear spangled petticoats of blue or pink silk, a long-waisted costume of purple velvet embroidered in gold, high-heeled shoes which display silver buckles, and a kerchief draped on the plaited hair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waisted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
