Meagre; deficient.
Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.
Palatalized.
A simple country gentleman.
[…] the fantastic pilgrimages imposed on the "Cousin Slenders" of the world by their more facetious comrades […]
From Middle English slendre, sclendre, from Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), from Middle Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), from Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), from Proto-Indo-Europ...
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