waiflike/waif

Before I Say Good-Byeを読んでいます。Nellの夫、Adam、が死んだボートの爆発事故にどうもこの女性、Winifred、が関係しているような雰囲気です。
She walked to the table and studied the pictures. Most of them showed a young Winifred, wearing a bathing suit and receiving an award. In a more recent photograph, she seemed to be in her early twenties, a thin, eagerly smiling, waiflike creature. “These have to be the pictures her mother said she wants,” she told Mac. “I’ll collect them on the way out.”
"waiflike" はOnelookの検索では何も出てきませんでしたが、"waif-like" では次の辞書のみが引っかかりました。
・Cambridge English Dictionary: very thin and delicate in appearance: waif-like supermodels
"waif" で引くと多くの辞書に説明があります。
・Collins Dictionary: If you refer to a child or young woman as a waif, you mean that they are very thin and look as if they have nowhere to live.: The director wants a waif-like, teenage girl with long, dark hair for the role.
・Macmillan Dictionary: a person, especially a child, who is thin and pale and looks as if they need to be taken care of