lissom

adj

Etymology: From Middle English lithsum, equivalent to lithe + -some. Doublet of lithesome.

1. Flexible and graceful in movement; lithe.

   “Now, our country lads, [...] are so much better made, so much more athletic, and yet so much lissomer—to use a Hampshire phrase, which deserves at least to be good English.”

   “A brig you see, sir, is much more laboursome in a gale of wind. A Schooner is much lissomer built.”