empire-waist

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empire-waist (not comparable)

  1. (fashion) Having an empire waist.
    • 2008 January 8, “Sun sets on the empire line”, in Brisbane Times[1]:
      All those empire-waist gowns and tops that looked so stylish not so long ago suddenly have turned into the fashion equivalent of pumpkins, morphing from au courant to out-of-date as quickly as the New Year's clocks chimed 12.