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(clothing) longer than usual; especially reaching to the hips quotations examples
Strapless longline bra, with wired underbust and flexible boning, smooths womanly curves.
1953, Farm Journal, volume 77
In the dressing room, the smiling attendant helped her into the longline corset with its built-in bra.
2007, Solange Ayre, One Thousand Brides, page 5
plural longlines
(fishing) gear consisting of a long and thick mainline, with baited hooks attached at intervals by means of branch lines called snoods (or gangions) examples
third-person singular simple present longlines, present participle longlining, simple past and past participle longlined
To fish with a line of this kind. quotations examples
The Japanese, always on the prowl for something else to take out of the sea, have been longlining sharks for years, and eating them in a variety of ways.
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 144
A slackline which runs a considerable distance examples