Meaning & use
Souple
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Flexible and easily bent; an archaic and dialectal variant of 'supple.'
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The old text describes the dancer's souple limbs.
Leather becomes souple once it has been worked with oil.
A note on using this word
Once a standard spelling in Middle English, 'souple' survives mainly in Scots dialect and older texts, where modern English uses 'supple.'
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