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leggy

(of a plant) having an unusually long and weak stem
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In other words they were the products of gene pools that produced female bodies leggier and more amply endowed, fore and aft, than did the French.
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265 (Maffeo Barberini to Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, Rome, 23 February 1609): "Mi ha trovato in una leggier purga che ho incominciata per la scesa di al quanto humore in un occhio.
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