corpulent

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The holiday’s corpulent, white-bearded dandy arrived even later, his schmaltzy persona skimmed from bony St. Nicholas between Reconstruction and 1931, when Coca-Cola debuted its iconic, brandy-flushed Santa Claus.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025

Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who gained worldwide fame with his sculptures and paintings of corpulent figures, has died at the age of 91.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2023

We’d eat at a table next to a mural of a corpulent iguana wearing sunglasses and a sombrero.

From Washington Post • May 15, 2019

Instead Mr. Sinton wrings his corpulent instrument for its full range of values: toneless smears; soul-baring swells; chomping, roughed-up blasts.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2017

But Sister Lucia, an elderly, corpulent nun, is less trusting than the others.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein