All 4 Uses of
languid
in
Main Street
- They saw an airy figure in trousers and coat of green brocade edged with gold; a high gold collar under a proud chin; black hair pierced with jade pins; a languid peacock fan in an out-stretched hand; eyes uplifted to a vision of pagoda towers.†
Chpt 6
- It was not a scorching, hard, dusty day like the treacherous intruder of a week before, but soaked with languor, softened with a milky light.†
Chpt 11 *
- It stunned them with its languid quiet.†
Chpt 15
- Idling on the porch of their summer cottage at the lake, on afternoons when Kennicott was in town, when the water was glazed and the whole air languid, she pictured a hundred escapes: Fifth Avenue in a snow-storm, with limousines, golden shops, a cathedral spire.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(languid) lacking energy or relaxed or moving slowly