窈よう窕ちょう

taru-adjective, adverb taking the 'to' particle

graceful and slender; elegantly slim

Literary, archaic adjective describing a woman's graceful, slender beauty. Used in classical or highly formal writing; not part of everyday speech.

• 彼かの女じょの姿すがたは窈よう窕ちょうとして、まるで絵え巻まき物ものから抜ぬけ出でたようだった。

  Her figure was graceful and slender, as if she had stepped out of a picture scroll.

• 古こ典てん文ぶん学がくでは、美び女じょを「窈よう窕ちょうたる佳か人じん」と表ひょう現げんすることがある。

  In classical literature, a beautiful woman is sometimes described as a 'graceful and slender beauty'.