willowy

Dérivé de willow (« saule ») avec le suffixe -y.

willowy \ˈwɪl.oʊ.i\ (États-Unis), \ˈwɪl.əʊ.i\ (Royaume-Uni)

1. Svelte, gracile, mince.
   • Izzi’s willowy friend summed him up one evening when the ladies of the ensemble were changing their practice-clothes after a particularly strenuous rehearsal, defending him against the Southern girl, who complained that he made her tired. — (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Jill the Reckless, 1920)
2. Planté de saules.
   • On one side of the road was the immense Roche de St. Julien, which overhung it; through the gateway of the castle we saw the snowy mountains of La Valais, clothed in clouds, and on the other side was the willowy plain of the Rhone, in a character of striking contrast with the rest of the scene, bounded by the dark mountains that overhang Clarens, Vevai, and the lake that rolls between. — (Percy Bysshe Shelley, History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, 1817)