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One can peruse a single issue, such as the April 1950 issue with Irving Penn's famous cover of a swan-necked model in black netting.
Now Online: 120 Years of Vogue Fashion Christina Binkley 2011
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The serpentine footpath was lit by white, swan-necked lamps.
The Empty City - Chapter 1 - Early Summer Berit Ellingsen 2011
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The brightest sparkle belonged to Ms. Piques Eddy, a swan-necked mezzo with fine technique, a range of colors from honeyed to bright and charm to burn.
Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: From Moral Challenge to Frothy Comedy - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The brightest sparkle belonged to Ms. Piques Eddy, a swan-necked mezzo with fine technique, a range of colors from honeyed to bright and charm to burn.
Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: From Moral Challenge to Frothy Comedy - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Hundreds of heads—speed-daters, Croatian waitresses, a French exchange student, hangers-on from the Stoker Club and the Black Narcissus, Siberian goatherds, swan-necked Italians, infinite Russians and Ukrainians—bobbing like buoys in the blood.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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Hundreds of heads—speed-daters, Croatian waitresses, a French exchange student, hangers-on from the Stoker Club and the Black Narcissus, Siberian goatherds, swan-necked Italians, infinite Russians and Ukrainians—bobbing like buoys in the blood.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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Hundreds of heads—speed-daters, Croatian waitresses, a French exchange student, hangers-on from the Stoker Club and the Black Narcissus, Siberian goatherds, swan-necked Italians, infinite Russians and Ukrainians—bobbing like buoys in the blood.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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Hundreds of heads—speed-daters, Croatian waitresses, a French exchange student, hangers-on from the Stoker Club and the Black Narcissus, Siberian goatherds, swan-necked Italians, infinite Russians and Ukrainians—bobbing like buoys in the blood.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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Whales with trunks, the swan-necked seals, and sex determination in dinosaurs.
Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006
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So, yes, a bit longer-necked than living seals, but ‘swan-necked’?
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
ry commented on the word swan-necked
adj that can refer to something with a distinctive question-mark-shaped swan-neck curve to it, as a lamp, or to a neck considered long and elegant, as of a person
March 18, 2021