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calisthenic

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + σθένος (sthénos, “strength”).

  1. Of, or relating to calisthenics.

    I will pass over the days of pap and petting, red shoes and blue sash, as being that only period when any thing of equality subsists between the sexes; and pass on to the time when all girls are awkward, and most of them ugly—days of back-boards and collars, red elbows, French, Italian, musical and calisthenic exercises.