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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All her images of a tiny waif locked in the attic seemed suddenly foolish and fantastic.
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Do I look like a waif ?
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He also made a special study of the outcasts, the waifs and strays of industrial society the vagrants and the idiots.
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Lavant plays a vagrant waif , Binoche a runaway painter.
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Louise looks like a waif and has indulged in more booze and cigarettes than she should have.