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• s  having a small waist

• Edward VII, late British King-Emperor, had a wasp-waisted tomboy daughter Maud who swam, rowed, handled a yacht smartly, ran a typewriter, bound books, carved wood, played chess .
• Two-thirds of hospitals' emergency calls were for wasp-waisted women who had fainted in public places.
• This crucially embarrassed the Chinese Government of wasp-waisted Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek who had made and is striving to keep a precarious peace with Japan.

• slender-waisted
• slim-waisted

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• Ben Brantley in Telegraph.co.uk
  In the New York Times, critic Ben Brantley praised the actress's "lively Broadway debut" and said: "In addition to being drop-dead gorgeous in David Farley's wasp-waisted period dresses, Ms Zeta Jones brings a decent voice, a supple dancer's...