Listen up – she’s lissom

Our Word of the Week from our friends at AUM PR is ‘lissom’. New Zeland writer Tui Allen is one of the few writers to work lissom into a poem:

“She danced so curving, lissom,
like the laughter of the song.
She sent resounding into space
and down the ages long.”

Rather to our surprise lissom, or to its occasional variant, lissome, doesn’t always refer to young women – it can, apparently, even refer to material.  As in “that rattan, it’s so lissom”.  Hmm, it doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue.

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