Both Uses of
supple
in
1984, by Orwell
- He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.†
p. 15.7 *
- He held Julia's supple waist easily encircled by his arm.†
p. 219.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(supple) moving and bending easily -- sometimes used figuratively to indicate mental flexibility when adapting to different conditions
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, supple can be used metaphorically to describe someone who easily adapts to different situations.