Sentence:  Phryne going to the Bath as Venus."— ... Was ever such a heap of rag dolls ever brought together and called men and women. Venuses indeed!—say rather limp-<WSD>lanknesses</WSD> seen through a burnt-sienna fog in a classical dream after falling asleep over one of Racine's tragedies. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The property of being lank, slender or thin.