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From clean (“shapely, well-proportioned”) + limbed (“having limbs of a specified kind or quality”, adjective).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
clean-limbed
Today it means: Having a slender, athletic body; lithe. Full definition →
Today it means: Having a slender, athletic body; lithe. Full definition →
From clean (“shapely, well-proportioned”) + limbed (“having limbs of a specified kind or quality”, adjective).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.