adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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tapered candles
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A long-line jacket with tapered trousers skims over any figure flaws.
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And tapered slacks in wine or navy; she saw those everywhere.
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Between the knife-shaped iron blade and the tapered tail of the spear is a rounded handle made from a particularly hard tree.
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Readily differentiated by its tapered head from Chabertia.
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The Black prince was the only smoothly tapered statuette, easily grasped, eleven inches from helmet to plinth.
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The program also allows for tapered raglan and saddle shoulder sleeve tops.
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The UV-975 variable wavelength detector has a tapered flow cell giving reduced refractive index effects.
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This pegged and tapered generation have learned from punk, will never repeat the glaring abuses of an earlier rock aristocracy.