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Kate Moss's persona in the 1990s
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waif
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Word definitions for waif in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All her images of a tiny waif locked in the attic seemed suddenly foolish and fantastic. ▪ Do I look like a waif ? ▪ He also made a special study of the outcasts, the waifs and strays of industrial society the vagrants and the ...
Usage examples of waif.
The same pity Jordan had felt for the cheerful little waif who had saved his life and looked at him with huge, adoring eyes.
The two large-headed fatherless waifs staring at me from the corner suggested another similarity between the two women.
I let her and everyone in the place understand that Miss Gemmell is no stray waif without influence to back her.
Although he cannot undo what he has done and write himself straight, she breaks free from those solipsized, warped sections of the memoir which aimed to suppress her as the nymphet waif.
Heath appraised the image professionally, having readopted his colonel persona for the benefit of their rescued waif.
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS Cease fooling on weak waifs who love and wed But as the unweeting Urger may bestead!
Much benefit might accrue to educators and moralists if they could know the details of the curriculum of reclamation through which Ranse put his waif during the month that he spent in the San Gabriel camp.
He had come so far from that frightened waif stumbling out of burned Dundalis.
I commend it to those of the Anglo-Gallic school, who love the domestically horrible, and delight in unsunned sorrows: but, I throw not any one topic away as a waif, for the casual passer-by to pick up on the highway.
Was the girl he had found in the alley not Sibylla but just another tattered waif lost to poverty?
She was taller than Amanda by half a head, but seemed waif like even with her height and the bulge in her belly.
Heaven alone knew if these waifs were acquainted with the world of make-believe.
A Nigerian student, and now two waifs - what else would the night throw at her?
The vesper had been said, yet here and there A wrinkled beldam, or mourner veiled, Or burly burgher on the cold floor knelt, And still the organist, with wandering hands, Drew from the keys mysterious melodies, And filled the church with flying waifs of song, That with ethereal beauty moved the soul To a more tender prayer and gentler faith Than choral anthems and the solemn mass.
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS Cease fooling on weak waifs who love and wed But as the unweeting Urger may bestead!