ETYMOLOGY
from Latin gracilis (slender) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Gracilious, slender, small, thin, soft and weak…”
From: The Academy of Armory; or, A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon
By Randle Holme, 1688
Some few terms of Art used by Historians in the description of Fish and Sea-Worms
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