Lissom,Today's Word of the Day

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lissom, also lissome \LISS-uhm\, adjective:
1. Limber; supple; flexible.
2. Light and quick in action; nimble; agile; active.

Raphaelle Boitel moves with the lissom, contortionist
plastique of a snake-woman.
--Nadine Meisner, "Clowns real and imagined,"
[1]Independent, April 20, 2001

Her foot touches the plate and sets off the trap, but so
swift and lissome is she that her ankles evade the clash of
the serrated iron jaws as they spring together.
--John Bayley, [2]Iris and Her Friends