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Having a bone structure that is light with respect to the surrounding flesh.

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Usage examples (10)
  • He was light-boned and thin for a ten-year-old, but still awfully heavy.
  • A small, slim woman, obviously light-boned and supple, she seemed to move forward like
  • Sometimes the work was almost too much for the light-boned, underfed girl but she always managed.
  • This lady was light-boned, thin, and bent with rheumatism, but bright-eyed as the sparrow she so strongly resembled.
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